Hearts in Exile (1929 film)

Hearts in Exile
1929 Swedish release poster
Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Written by	Harvey Gates (scenario) De Leon Anthony (titles)
Based on	Hearts in Exile (1904 novel) by John Oxenham
Starring	Dolores Costello Grant Withers
Cinematography	William Rees
Edited by	Thomas Pratt
Music by	Cecil Copping
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	September 14, 1929 (1929-09-14)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$538,000 [1]
Box office	$653,000 [1]

Hearts in Exile is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code romance film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz. It was also released in a silent version with music and effects. It starred Dolores Costello in a story based on the 1904 novel by John Oxenham. An earlier 1915 film starring Clara Kimball Young was also produced, and is extant, but the 1929 version is considered to be a lost film. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Cast

• Dolores Costello as Vera Zuanova
• Grant Withers as Paul Pavloff
• James Kirkwood, Sr. as Baron Serge Palma
• George Fawcett as Dmitri Ivanov
• David Torrence as Governor
• Olive Tell as Anna Reskova
• Lee Moran as Professor Rooster
• Tom Dugan as Orderly
• Rose Dione as Marya
• William Irving as Rat Catcher
• Carrie Daumery as Baroness Veimar

Music

The film features a theme song entitled "Like a Breath of Springtime" with lyrics by Al Dubin and music by Joseph A. Burke. Also featured was a secondary theme song entitled "Mother’s Little Sweetheart" which was composed by the same authors.

Box office

According to Warner Bros the film earned $424,000 domestically and $229,000 foreign. ^[1]

See also

• List of lost films
• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
• List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features

References

1. Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 10 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30, The American Film Institute, c. 1971
3. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Hearts in Exile
4. Hearts in Exile at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers - 1929

External links

• Hearts in Exile at IMDb
• Hearts in Exile at the TCM Movie Database
• Hearts in Exile at silentera.com
• foreign release poster of Hearts in Exile(Wayback Machine)
• News advert for the movie