Show Folks
1928 film by Paul L. Stein From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Show Folks is a 1928 American part-talkie sound drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, and Carole Lombard.[1] Although the film featured a few sequences with audible dialogue, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was released in both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film format.
| Show Folks | |
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| Directed by | Paul L. Stein |
| Written by | John W. Krafft Jack Jungmeyer George Dromgold |
| Produced by | Ralph Block |
| Starring | Eddie Quillan Lina Basquette Carole Lombard |
| Cinematography | David Abel J. Peverell Marley |
| Edited by | Doane Harrison |
| Music by | Josiah Zuro |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Sound (Part-Talkie) (English Intertitles) |
Plot
 | This article needs a plot summary. (December 2023) |
Cast
- Eddie Quillan as Eddie Kehoe
- Lina Basquette as Rita Carey
- Carole Lombard as Cleo
- Robert Armstrong as Owens, the Promoter
- Crauford Kent as McNary, a Vaudeville Producer
- Bessie Barriscale as Kitty Mayo
- Richard Tucker as Vaudeville Performer
- Maurice Black as Vaudeville Performer
- Joan Bennett as Night Club Patron
Music
The film featured a theme song entitled "No One But Me (Only Me)" which was composed by Billy Stone, Al Koppell and Charles Weinberg. Also featured on the soundtrack was a song entitled "My Heart Keeps On Speaking Of Love" composed by Gus Kahn and Joe Cooper. An additional song heard on the soundtrack was entitled "Love's First Kiss" by Lew Porter and Sam A. Perry.
Preservation
This film survives at the French archive Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in Fort de Bois-d'Arcy, Library of Congress, and UCLA Film and Television Archive.[2][3]
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