The Blue Danube is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film starring Leatrice Joy. Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. This picture was produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Paul Sloane with a distribution through Pathé Exchange.The Blue Danube at silentera.com
Plot A romance set in Austria before, during, and after World War I.
Cast Leatrice Joy as Marguerite Joseph Schildkraut as Ludwig Nils Asther as Erich von Statzen Seena Owen as Helena Boursch Albert Gran as Herr Bourscch Frank Reicher as Baron May Robson Edna Mae Cooper Oliver Eckhardt as Fritz
Music The sound version featured a theme song entitled “Moonlight on the Danube” which was composed by Byron Gay.
Preservation A print of The Blue Danube is preserved at the Library of Congress, Archives Du Film Du CNC(Bois d'Arcy), BFI National Film And Television Archive.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 19, c.1978 by The American Film InstituteThe Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database:The Blue Danube
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External links
Lantern slide for the film Stills at the Nils Asther website