The Talk of Hollywood is a 1929 American musical comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Nat Carr, Fay Marbe and Hope Sutherland.Munden p.785 It was shot at the New York studios of RKO Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst Fegté. The film parodies the rush by Hollywood to convert to sound film production in the late 1920s, and leading moguls such as Samuel Goldwyn.
Synopsis Following the arrival of talkies, film tycoon J. Pierpont Ginsburg decides to throw all his money and energies into a musical extravaganza and imports a top French star from Paris to appear in it.
Cast Nat Carr as J. Pierpont Ginsburg Fay Marbe as Adoré Renée Hope Sutherland as Ruth Ginsburg Sherling Oliver as John Applegate Edward LeSaint as Edward Hamilton Gilbert Marbe as Reginald Whitlock John Troughton as The Butler Al Goodman's Orchestra as Al Goodman's Orchestra The Leonidoff Ballet as Ballet Troupe
Production credits The production credits on the film were as follows: Mark Sandrich - director and story Nat Carr - story Darby Aaronson - dialogue Frank Melford - production manager Harold Godsoe - assistant director Frank Kingsley - casting director Al Piantadosi - songs and orchestration Jack Glogau - songs and orchestration George Oschmann - recording engineer John Dolan - recording engineer Russell G. Shields - editor Ernst Fegté - art director Walter Strenge - chief cinematographer
See also List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
Bibliography Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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