Blue Skies (1929 film)

Blue Skies
Film poster
Directed by	Alfred L. Werker
Written by	Malcolm Stuart Boylan Frederick Hazlitt Brennan John Stone
Starring	Carmencita Johnson Freddie Burke Frederick Ethel Wales
Cinematography	L. William O'Connell
Production company	Fox Film Corporation
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	March 17, 1929 (1929-03-17)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles)

Blue Skies is a 1929 American Synchronized sound drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Carmencita Johnson, Freddie Burke Frederick, and Ethel Wales. ^[1] While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Movietone process. The film is based on a short story called The Matron's Report by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. ^[2] The short story also formed the basis for 1936's Little Miss Nobody . ^{[2] [3]}

Cast

• Carmencita Johnson as Dorothy May
• Freddie Burke Frederick as Richard Lewis
• Ethel Wales as Matron
• Helen Twelvetrees as Dorothy May
• Frank Albertson as Richard Lewis
• Rosa Gore as Nellie Crouch
• William Orlamond as Janitor
• E.H. Calvert as Mr. Semple Jones
• Evelyn Hall as Mrs. Semple Jones
• Claude King as Richard Danforth
• Adele Watson as First Assistant Matron
• Helen Jerome Eddy as Second Assistant Matron
• Mickey Martin
• Dickie Moore
• Coy Watson
• Delmar Watson
• Harry Watson
• Virginia Bruce as Party Guest
• John Darrow as Dorothy's Beau / Party Guest

See also

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References

1. Goble p.693
2. Blue Skies at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
3. Hollinger, Hy (January 4, 1956). "Remakes of Feature Films". Variety . p. 72. Retrieved July 20, 2019– via Archive.org.

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• Blue Skies at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Blue Skies at IMDb