The Shopworn Angel (1928 film)

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The Shopworn Angel
File:The Shopworn Angel (1928 film) - poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Richard Wallace
Written by Howard Estabrook
Albert S. LeVino
Tom Miranda (intertitles)
Based on short story "Private Pettigrew's Girl" (1918) by Dana Burnet
Starring Nancy Carroll
Gary Cooper
Music by Ben Bergunker
Andrea Setaro
Cinematography Charles Lang
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
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  • December 29, 1928 (1928-12-29) (New York City)
  • January 12, 1929 (1929-01-12) (U.S.)
Running time
 80 minutes
7,112 feet (silent version)
7,377 feet (sound version)[1]
Country United States
Language English

The Shopworn Angel (1928) is a part-talking film from Paramount Pictures starring Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper.[2] The film was released in a silent version as well as a sound version using the Movietone sound-on-film system.[3] This film was owned by Turner Entertainment and was distributed through Warner Bros.

Cast

Sound

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

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

References

  1. ↑ The Shopworn Angel at SilentEra
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  3. ↑ The Shopworn Angel at SilentEra

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