Happy Days (1929)
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In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.
- Date of release
- 1929-09-16
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Music
- Director
- Benjamin Stoloff
Casting
- Charles E. Evans — Colonel Billy Batcher
- Marjorie White — Margie
- Richard Keene — Dick
- Stuart Erwin — Jig
- Martha Lee Sparks — Nancy Lee
- Clifford Dempsey — Sheriff Benton
- James J. Corbett — Interlocutor - Minstrel Show
- George MacFarlane — Interlocutor - Minstrel Show
- Janet Gaynor — Janet Gaynor
- Charles Farrell — Charles Farrell
- Victor McLaglen — Minstrel Show Performer
- El Brendel — Minstrel Show Performer
Interesting facts
Happy Days is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, which was the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world, filmed using the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. French director Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927) had a final widescreen segment in what Gance called Polyvision. Paramount released Old Ironsides (1927), with two sequences in a widescreen process called "Magnascope", while MGM released Trail of '98 (1928) in a widescreen process called "Fanthom Screen".
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