The Blue Danube is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film starring Leatrice Joy. Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. This picture was produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Paul Sloane with a distribution through Pathé Exchange.[1][2]
| The Blue Danube | |
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 Lobby card | |
| Directed by | Paul Sloane |
| Written by | Harry Carr (writer) Paul Sloane (writer) John W. Krafft (titles) Edwin Justus Mayer (titles) |
| Story by | John Farrow |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille Ralph Block |
| Starring | Leatrice Joy Joseph Schildkraut |
| Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller |
| Edited by | Margaret Darrell |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent Version Sound Version (English Intertitles) |
Plot
editA romance set in Austria before, during, and after World War I.
Cast
edit- Leatrice Joy as Marguerite
- Joseph Schildkraut as Ludwig
- Nils Asther as Erich von Statzen
- Seena Owen as Helena Boursch
- Albert Gran as Herr Bourscch
- Frank Reicher as Baron
- May Robson
- Edna Mae Cooper
- Oliver Eckhardt as Fritz
Music
editThe sound version featured a theme song entitled “Moonlight on the Danube” which was composed by Byron Gay.
Preservation
editA print of The Blue Danube is preserved at the Library of Congress, Archives Du Film Du CNC(Bois d'Arcy), BFI National Film And Television Archive.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ The Blue Danube at silentera.com
- ^ "Hersholt Signs as Simon Levi in New Picture". Los Angeles Times. October 30, 1927. p. 27.
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 19, c.1978 by The American Film Institute
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database:The Blue Danube
External links
edit- The Blue Danube at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Lantern slide for the film
- Stills at the Nils Asther website
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