Good News (1930 film)

Good News
Directed byNick Grinde
Written byFrances Marion (scenario)
Based onGood News (musical)
by Laurence Schwab
Lew Brown
Frank Mandel
B.G. DeSylva[1]
StarringBessie Love
Cliff Edwards
Penny Singleton
CinematographyPercy Hilburn[2](*French)
Edited byWilliam LeVanway
Production
company
Release date
  • August 23, 1930 (1930-08-23) (U.S.)[1]
Running time
78 minutes[1][3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Good News is a 1930 American pre-Code musical film directed by Nick Grinde, and starring Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards, and Penny Singleton. The film was shot in black-and-white, although the finale was in multicolor.

The film is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[4] The surviving print lacks the color finale; no footage of the finale is known to survive.[5]

The film was based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. Another film based on the musical, also called Good News, was released in 1947. By the 1940s, the 1930 production was not shown in the United States due to its Pre-Code content, which included sexual innuendo and lewd suggestive humor.

  1. ^ a b c Munden, Kenneth W., ed. (1971). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1921–1930. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. p. 306. ISBN 9780520215214. OCLC 664500075.
  2. ^ Love, Bessie (1977). From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 154. OCLC 734075937.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference variety was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Good news (Motion picture : 1930)". UCLA Library Catalog, Film & Television Archive.
  5. ^ "GOOD NEWS color sequence". NitrateVille. May 17, 2010. Retrieved November 9, 2014.

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