A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

About This Listing Report Omissions or Errors in This Listing

Barnum Was Right!
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4477 feet
Directed by Del Lord

Cast: Glenn Tryon [Freddie Farrell], Merna Kennedy [Miriam Locke], Otis Harlan [Samuel Locke], Basil Radford [Standish], Clarence Burton [Martin], Lew Kelly [Harrison], Isabelle Keith [Phoebe O’Dare], Gertrude Sutton [Sarah], Louise Beavers [a maid], Louise Carver [a Treasure Hotel guest], Hayes E. Robertson [a Treasure Hotel guest], Marion Sayers

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [A Del Lord Production; A Universal Picture]. / Produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. Scenario by Ewart Adamson, Arthur Ripley and Hutchinson Boyd (Hutcheson Boyd), from a play by Philip Bartholomae and John Meehan. Cinematography by Jerome Ash. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / Released 22 September 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Radford’s film debut. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version by Universal Pictures Corporation in 1929. / Full-sound film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Hotels - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 26 January 2025.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 70 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.