Lady of the Pavements
Lady of the Pavements (UK title: Lady of the Night) is a 1929 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lupe Vélez, William Boyd, and Jetta Goudal. Griffith reshot the film to include a couple of musical numbers, making it a part-talkie.[1]
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| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
| Produced by | Joseph M. Schenck |
| Written by | Sam Taylor Karl Vollmoller |
| Starring | Lupe Vélez William Boyd Jetta Goudal |
| Music by | Irving Berlin |
| Cinematography | Karl Struss |
Production company | Art Cinema Corporation |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Plot
Disgusted that his fiancee, Diane (Jetta Goudal) has been cheating on him, Karl (William Boyd) says he'd rather marry a "street walker" than her. To get back at him, Diane arranges for Nanoni ("Little One") (Lupe Vélez), a singer at a sleazy bar, to pretend to be a Spanish girl, from a convent, to fool him.[2]
Cast
- Lupe Vélez as Nanon del Rayon
- William Boyd as Count Karl Von Arnim
- Jetta Goudal as Countess Diane des Granges
- Albert Conti as Baron Finot
- George Fawcett as Baron Haussmann
- Henry Armetta as Papa Pierre
- William Bakewell as A Pianist
- Franklin Pangborn as M'sieu Dubrey, Dance Master
Preservation
The Vitaphone sound-on-disc system was employed for sound sequences. Discs 6 and 8 are in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Other sound discs to this film were donated by Arthur Lennig to the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York.
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lady of the Pavements. |
- Lady of the Pavements on IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Lady of the Pavements poster
- Stills at moviessilently.com
- Still at silentfilm.org
