On with the Show (1929) |
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| Director(s) | Alan Crosland |
| Producer(s) | Darryl F. Zanuck (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Musical |
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Arthur Lake
(as Harold)
Betty Compson
(as Nita)
Joe E. Brown
(as Joe Beaton)
William Bakewell
(as Jimmy)
Louise Fazenda
(as Sarah)
Ethel Waters
(as Ethel)
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On with the Show (1929) was a Musical - Film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
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Musical Monday: On with the Show! (1929)
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: On With The Show! (1929... Read full article
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Although this film was produced in two-strip Technicolor, all existing prints are black-and-white.
The first full-length sound motion picture produced entirely in color.
In a separately filmed trailer, Vitaphone production reel #3060, Sam Hardy introduces the stars to the audience and talks about the story.
Although credited as "Durant" on screen, Wheeler Oakman is called only "Bob Wallace" or "Robert Wallace" in the movie. Similarly, Otto Hoffman is credited as "Bart" but is only called "Bert" in the movie.
Originally released with the sound track recorded on Vitaphone discs, a sound-on-film version was later released, which required the left side of the image to be cropped off in order to provide space for the optical track, a black and white version of which seems to be all that has survived, and is occasionally shown on Turner Classic Movies.