Girl Overboard is a 1929 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Mary Philbin. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Western Electric sound-on-film system. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures.Progressive Silent Film List: Girl Overboard at silentera.comThe AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Girl Overboard
The film is also known under the alternative titles of Salvage and Port of Dreams.
Cast Mary Philbin as Joan Fred Mackaye as Denton Ford Jr. Otis Harlan as Joe Evans Francis McDonald as Francisco Edmund Breese as Jim Keefe Wilfrid North as Judge Mary Alden
Preservation With no prints of Girl Overboard located in any film archives,Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Girl Overboard it is a lost film.Girl Overboard or Port of Dreams at Lost Film Files: 1929 Universal films
Music The film featured a theme song entitled "Today and Tomorrow" which was composed by Fred E. Ahlert, Joseph Cherniavsky, and Roy Turk.
See also List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
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