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She Goes to War
(1929) United States of America
B&W : 87 minutes
Directed by Henry King
Cast: Eleanor Boardman [Joan Morant], John Holland [Tom Pike], Margaret Seddon [Tom’s mother], Edmund Burns [Reggie van Kuyper], Eulalie Jensen [Mrs. Brewster, the canteen matron], Alma Rubens [Rosie Cohen], Glen (Glen Walters) [Katie Dugan], Yola D’Avril [Yvette], Al St. John [Bill, a soldier], Edward Chandler [top sergeant], Jack Stambaugh [a wounded soldier], John Peters [a machine gunner]; Evelyn Hall [Joan’s aunt], Dina Smirnova [Joan’s maid], Augustino Borgato [major], Yvonne Starke [the major’s wife], Captain H.M. Zier [major], Ann Warrington [hostess], Gretchen Hartman [knitting woman], Florence Wix [knitting woman]
Inspiration Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by United Artists Corporation. / Associate producers, Victor Hugo Halperin and Edward R. Halperin. Screenplay by Howard Estabrook and Fred De Gresac, with dialogue by John Monk Saunders, from an adaptation by Fred De Gresac of a screen story by Rupert Hughes. Art direction by Albert D’Agostino and Robert M. Haas. Music score by Modest Altschuler. Cinematography by John Fulton and Tony Gaudio. Film editor, Lloyd Nosler. Intertitles written by John Monk Saunders. Presented by John Boyce-Smith and Mitchell Leichter. / Released 13 July 1929. / [?] Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. Rubens’ final film appearance. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.
Comedy-Drama: World War I.
Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum (EmGee Film Library collection) [16mm reduction positive]; and in the Library of Congress film archive [digital preservation scan].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film - War: Soldiers, World War I (28 July 1914-11 November 1918) - Weapons: Guns
Listing updated: 3 December 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Drew-Speaking pp. 50, 51-52, 275; Parish-Combat pp. 354, 355, 356; Weaver-Twenty p. 452.
Home video: DVD.
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