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. The screenplay was written by Sam Taylor, with contributions from an uncredited Gerrit Lloyd.[1] Griffith reshot the film to include a few musical sequences, making it a part-talkie.[2]
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| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
| Screenplay by | Sam Taylor |
| Based on | La Paiva by Karl Vollmoller |
| Produced by | Joseph M. Schenck |
| Starring | Lupe Vélez William Boyd Jetta Goudal |
| Cinematography | Karl Struss |
| Edited by | James Smith |
| Music by | Irving Berlin |
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 fiancée, 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.[3]
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
- Mayer, David (March 2009). Stagestruck Filmmaker: D. W. Griffith and the American Theatre. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-58729-840-0.
- Progressive Silent Film List: Lady of the Pavements at silentera.com
- Internet Movie Database
External links
- Lady of the Pavements at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Lady of the Pavements at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Lady of the Pavements at the TCM Movie Database
- Lady of the Pavements poster
- Stills at moviessilently.com
- Still at silentfilm.org
- Lady of the Pavements on YouTube
