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The Bat Whispers is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Roland West, produced by Joseph M. Schenck, and released by United Artists.The film is based on the 1920 mystery play The Bat, written by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, and is the second film version by the same director, previously adapted in 1926.
The Bat Whispers: Roland West: Chester Morris, Maude Eburne, Chance Ward: Mystery melodrama: United Artists. Widescreen. [24] Be Yourself: Thornton Freeland: Fanny Brice, Robert Armstrong: Musical comedy: United Artists [25] Beau Bandit: Lambert Hillyer: Rod La Rocque, Doris Kenyon: Western comedy: RKO [26] Behind the Make-Up: Robert Milton ...
Many of her short stories, books, and plays were adapted for movies, such as Bab: A Sub-Deb (1917), The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), Miss Pinkerton (1932), and The Bat (1959 remake). The novel The Circular Staircase was first adapted to the screen as a silent film in 1915, and later as an episode in the TV show Climax! in 1956.
Roland West (February 20, 1885 – March 31, 1952) was an American film director, known for his innovative proto-film noir movies of the 1920s and early 1930s. He is however best known for his possible involvement in the death of Hollywood actress Thelma Todd in 1935.
Pages in category "Animated characters introduced in 1930" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
[9] Kane said his influences for the character included actor Douglas Fairbanks's film portrayal of the swashbuckler Zorro; Leonardo da Vinci's diagram of the ornithopter, a flying machine with huge bat-like wings; and the 1930 film The Bat Whispers, based on Mary Rinehart's mystery novel The Circular Staircase (1908). [10]
She continued to play mainly humorous domestic roles on stage, appearing in productions such as The Half Moon (1920), Lady Butterfly (1923), Three Cheers (1928) and Many a Slip (1930), [5] before her first significant film role — and first sound film role — [1] in The Bat Whispers (1930), director Roland West's sound remake of his 1926 ...
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