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Gloria Swanson.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Trespasser
(1929) United States of America
B&W : 88 minutes
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Cast: Gloria Swanson [Marion Donnell], Robert Ames [Jack Merrick], Purnell Pratt [Hector Ferguson], Henry B. Walthall [Fuller], Wally Albright Jr. [Jack Merrick], William Holden [John Merrick Sr.], Blanche Frederici (Blanche Friderici) [Miss Potter], Kay Hammond [Catherine ‘Flip’ Merrick], Mary Forbes [Mrs. Ferguson], Marcelle Corday [Blanche, the maid], Ed Brady [Fred, the moving man], Henry Armetta [the barber], Allan Cavan [the doctor], Bobby Dunn [the milkman], William H. O’Brien [the butler], Lloyd Whitlock [a board member], Brooks Benedict [a reporter], Billy Bevan [a reporter], Richard Cramer [a reporter], Stuart Erwin [a reporter], Count Cutelli [vocal effects]
Gloria Productions production; distributed by United Artists Corporation. / Produced by Gloria Swanson and Joseph P. Kennedy. Screenplay by Edmund Goulding, Gloria Swanson and Laura Hope Crews. Song “Love, Your Magic Spell is Everywhere” by Edmund Goulding (music) and Elsie Janis (lyrics). Production manager, Harry H. Poppe. Art direction by Stephen Goosson. Art effects by Edward C. Jewell. Costume execution (design) by Judge Johnson + [René Hubert and Ann Morgan]. Set furnishings (set dressing) by Ted E. Dickson. Dialogue coach, Laura Hope Crews. Cinematography by George Barnes and Gregg Toland. Musical director, Josiah Zoro. Sound engineer, George D. Ellis. Sound technician, Earl A. Walcott. Film editors, Duncan Mansfield and James B. Morley. Editorial associates, Cyril Gardner and Laura Hope Crews. Presented by Joseph P. Kennedy. / Released 5 October 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format and [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format? [?] Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system? / Swanson’s first sound picture. The film was available in the USA in a silent version. Premiered 1 November 1929 by the Rialto Theatre in New York, New York; the film had previously opened in Buffalo, Indianapolis, Rochester, Omaha, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Des Moines and Detroit. Swanson was nominated for her second Academy Award. / Full-sound film.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 7 December 2024.
References: Hudson-Swanson pp. 198, 199, 202; Quirk-Swanson pp. 33, 34, 35, 43, 214-217, 218, 223, 231; Vermilye-Twenties p. 118 : Variety-19291030 p. 31 : Website-GEM : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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