My Lips Betray

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My Lips Betray
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Directed by John G. Blystone
Written by Attila Orbók (play)
Jacques Natanson (play)
Jane Storm
S.N. Behrman
Hanns Kräly
Starring Lilian Harvey
John Boles
El Brendel
Cinematography Lee Garmes
Edited by Alex Troffey
Music by Hugo Friedhofer
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • November 4, 1933 (1933-11-04)
Running time
76 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

My Lips Betray is a 1933 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by John G. Blystone and starring Lilian Harvey, John Boles and El Brendel. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Joseph C. Wright.

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Plot

In a fictional, Central European kingdom, a vivacious but dimwitted young lady works as a singer in a beer garden for her lease cash. In the meantime, the ruler is confronting bankruptcy for his small country, unless he weds a wealthy, but undesirable ruler of another Central European territory. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible bankruptcy and ruin.

Cast

Preservation

A restored version was shown at the 2019 UCLA Festival of Preservation.

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References

  1. Solomon p. 343

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