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The Desert Song is a 1929 American pre-Code sound (All-Talking) operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy. It was photographed partly in two-color Technicolor, the first film released by Warner Bros. to include footage in color. The film included a 10-minute intermission during ...
The Desert Song is a 1943 American musical film. It was directed by Robert Florey and starred Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning and Bruce Cabot. [2] It is based on the 1926 operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Charles Novi, Jack McConaghy).
The Desert Song is still occasionally performed and has been made into a motion picture four times, though the second version was a short subject, rather than a feature-length film. All film versions were made by Warner Brothers. In 1929, a lavish film with Technicolor sequences starred John Boles and Myrna Loy. This version was scrupulously ...
The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.It was one of the early musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930.
On 4 December 1928 Act II of The Desert Song, featuring the cast members from the stage production, was broadcast on 3LO from 9.30 to 11.10 p.m. [44] On Sunday night, 3 February 1929, a "special representation" of Oscar Wilde's Salome was broadcast on Radio 3AR, produced by Deste. [45]
The original plot is more-or-less adhered to, with some significant alterations. Benny is depicted as a comic Bob Hope-like coward, but not as a sissy.El Khobar's alter ego is that of a mild-mannered (but not squeamish) Latin tutor and anthropologist, whom Birabeau (Ray Collins) hires to keep Margot (Kathryn Grayson) from flirting with his regiment.
Cast Genre Studio Acquitted: Frank R. Strayer: Lloyd Hughes, Margaret Livingston: Criminal melodrama: Columbia [1] [2] After the Fog: Leander De Cordova: Mary Philbin, Edmund Burns, Carmelita Geraghty: Drama: Independent: The Air Legion: Bert Glennon: Antonio Moreno, Ben Lyon: Melodrama: FBO [3] Alibi: Roland West: Chester Morris, Mae Busch ...
Del Ruth was the second highest paid director in Hollywood during the period 1932 to 1941 according to Box Office and Exhibitor magazine. Del Ruth was one of seven directors on the successful Ziegfeld Follies (1946), which featured an all-star cast of Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Lena Horne, Red Skelton, and William Powell.