Lady of the Pavements

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Lady of the Pavements
James Smith
Music byIrving Berlin
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • January 22, 1929 (1929-01-22)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
(English Intertitles)

Lady of the Pavements (UK title: Lady of the Night) is a 1929 American

romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lupe Vélez, William Boyd, and Jetta Goudal. The screenplay was written by Sam Taylor, with contributions from an uncredited Gerrit Lloyd.[1] While the film has a few talking sequences, the majority of the film features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.[2]

Plot

Disgusted that his fiancée, Diane (Jetta Goudal) has been cheating on him, Karl (William Boyd) says he'd rather marry a "street walker" than her. To get back at him, Diane arranges for Nanoni ("Little One") (Lupe Vélez), a singer at a sleazy bar, to pretend to be a Spanish girl, from a convent, to fool him.[3]

Cast

Music

The film featured a theme song entitled “Where Is The Song Of Songs For Me?” which was composed by Irving Berlin.

Preservation

The film survives in a mute print that required the use of the

George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York
.

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