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| The Desert Song | |
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| Directed by | Roy Del Ruth |
| Screenplay by | Harvey Gates |
| Story by | Otto A. Harbach Oscar Hammerstein II Frank Mandel |
| Based on | The Desert Song 1926 play/book by Oscar Hammerstein II Otto A. Harbach Frank Mandel Laurence Schwab Music: Sigmund Romberg Book & Lyrics: Otto A. Harbach Oscar Hammerstein II Frank Mandel[1] |
| Starring | John Boles Carlotta King Louise Fazenda Myrna Loy |
| Cinematography | Barney McGill (part-Technicolor) |
| Edited by | Ralph Dawson Furusawa[2] |
| Music by | Irving Berlin Sigmund Romberg Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II Otto Harbach |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 125 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $354,000[3] |
| Box office | $3,022,000[3] |
The Desert Song is a 1929 American pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy. It was photographed partly in two-color Technicolor, the first film released by Warner Bros. to include footage in color. The film included a 10-minute intermission during which music was played.
It was based on the hit musical play with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, and Frank Mandel, which opened at the Casino Theatre on Broadway on November 30, 1926, and ran for a very successful 465 performances.[4][1] Although some of the songs from the show have been omitted, the film is otherwise virtually a duplicate of the stage production and extremely faithful to it.
On the basis of the success of The Desert Song, Warner Bros. quickly cast John Boles in an all-color musical feature called Song of the West, which was completed by June 1929 but had its release delayed until March 1930.
- ^ a b The Desert Song on Internet Broadway Database
- ^ a b c The Desert Song at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 7 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
- ^ Musical Theatre Guide