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Catherine Dale Owen and John Gilbert.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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His Glorious Night
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels / 7173 feet / 80 minutes
Directed by Lionel Barrymore
Cast: John Gilbert [Captain Kovacs], Catherine Dale Owen [Princess Orsolini], Nance O’Neil [Eugenie], Gustav von Seyffertitz [Krehl], Hedda Hopper [Mrs. Collingwood Stratton], Doris Hill [Priscilla Stratton], Tyrell Davis [Prince Luigi Caprilli], Gerald Barry [Lord Work], Madeline Seymour [Lady York], Richard Carle [Count Albert], Eva Dennison [Countess Lina], Youcca Troubetzkoy [Von Bergman], Peter Gawthorne [General Ettingen]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Screenplay by Willard Mack, with dialogue by Willard Mack, from the play Olympia by Ferenc Molnár. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by David Cox. Cinematography by Percy Hilburn. Sound recording by Douglas Shearer. Film editor, William La Vanway. Music composed by [?] Lionel Barrymore? Music conducted by William Axt. / © 4 November 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP839]. Released 28 September 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version at 5353 feet by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation in 1929. [?] Bardèche-History pp. 335-336 notes a film titled His Glorious Night that Jacques Feyder rejected artistically and may have worked on. / Full-sound film.
Drama: Romance.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 16 December 2008.
References: Brownlow-Parade p. 576; Dardis-Keaton p. 179; Kerr-Silent p. 48; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 100; Shipman-Cinema p. 105; Sinyard-Silent p. 84; Vermilye-Twentiess p. 26; Weaver-Twenty p. 143 : Website-AFI.
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