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  Harry Gribbon (in straw hat) and Charlotte Greenwood (right).
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So Long Letty
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Lloyd Bacon

Cast: Charlotte Greenwood [Letty Robbins], Grant Withers [Harry Miller], Patsy Ruth Miller [Grace Miller], Bert Roach [Tommy Robbins], Claude Gillingwater [Uncle Claude Davis], Marion Byron [Ruth Davis], Helen Foster [Sally Davis], Hallam Cooley [Clarence de Brie], Harry Gribbon [Joe Casey], Lloyd Ingraham [the judge], Jack Grey [the police sergeant], Wilbur Mack [the desk clerk]

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [A Warner Bros. Production]. / Screenplay by Robert Lord, with dialogue by Arthur Caesar, from the musical comedy play So Long Letty by Oliver Morosco, Elmer Harris (book) and Earl Carroll (music and lyrics). Song “Am I Blue” by Harry Akst (music) and Grant Clarke (lyrics). Cinematography by James Van Trees. Film editor, Jack Killifer. Intertitles written by De Leon Anthony. Musical director, Louis Silvers. Presented by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Released 16 October 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The play was previously filmed as So Long Letty (1920). / Full-sound film.

Comedy: Musical.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 30 October 2024.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4110; Drew-Speaking pp. 156, 281 : Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1 December 1929, pp. 7E, 8E : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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