Tenderloin (1928) Facts
| Director(s) | Michael Curtiz |
| Producer(s) | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Featured Cast | Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, George E. Stone |
| Total Facts | 6 |
A part-talkie, this film contained 15 minutes of spoken dialog. Warner Brothers promoted it as the first film in which actors actually spoke their roles.
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Following The Jazz Singer, the second Vitaphone feature to have talking sequences.
The film premiered in New York along with a series of Vitaphone short subjects that included _Cugat and his Gigolos (1928)_ . The feature itself was met with derisive laughter resulting from the stilted dialogue.
The short subjects A Spanish Ensemble, Stories in Song, Quartette from 'Rigoletto' played before this film in many venues during its initial release.
Vitaphone production reels #2501-2509