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The Shopworn Angel (1928 film)

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The Shopworn Angel
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRichard Wallace
Screenplay byHoward Estabrook
Albert S. LeVino
Tom Miranda (intertitles)
Based onPrivate Pettigrew's Girl
1918 story in The Saturday Evening Post
by Dana Burnet
StarringNancy Carroll
Gary Cooper
CinematographyCharles Lang
Edited byRobert Gessler
Music byBen Bergunker
Andrea Setaro
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • December 29, 1928 (1928-12-29) (New York City)
  • January 12, 1929 (1929-01-12) (U.S.)
Running time
80 minutes
7,377 feet (Sound Version)
7,112 feet (Silent Version)[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Shopworn Angel is a 1928 American part-talking sound romantic drama film directed by Richard Wallace starring Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper.[2] The film was released by Paramount Pictures using the Western Electric sound-on-film system.[1] Like the majority of films in the early sound era, a silent version was made for theatres who hadn't converted to sound yet by trimming down the portions of the film that featured talking or singing.

Plot

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Cast

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Music

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The film featured a theme song entitled "A Precious Little Thing Called Love" that was by Lou Davis and J. Fred Coots.

Sound

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This film was nearing completion when The Jazz Singer (1927) was released. Dialogue was written for Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll to compete with "talking pictures". The last scene was a wedding and the only lines of dialogue spoken in the film are Cooper's "I do" and Carroll's "I do". In addition, Carroll is also heard singing the theme song.

Preservation status

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This film survives in an incomplete form at the Library of Congress.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Progressive Silent Film List: The Shopworn Angel at silentera.com
  2. ^ "The Shopworn Angel". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
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