On With the Show!

On With the Show! (1929)

It had to come! This newest triumph of Science and Art- Motion Pictures in Natural Colors!

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?

Date of release
1929-07-13
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Romance, Music
Director
Alan Crosland

Casting

Interesting facts

On with the Show! is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code musical film directed by Alan Crosland and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Filmed in two-color Technicolor, the film became the first all-talking, all-color feature-length film, and the second color feature film released by Warner Bros.; the first was the partly color musical The Desert Song (1929). On January 1, 2025, the film's copyright expired, resulting in the film entering the public domain.

Production and promotion

Warner Bros. promoted On with the Show! as filmed in "natural color." This was the first in a series of Warner Bros. contracted color films.

The film generated much interest in Hollywood and virtually overnight, most other major studios began filming in the color process. The film would be eclipsed by the far greater success of the second Technicolor film, Gold Diggers of Broadway. (Song of the West was completed first, but its release was delayed until March 1930).

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