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Norma Shearer and Raymond Hackett.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
(1929) United States of America
B&W : 12 reels / 10,621 feet
Directed by Bayard Veillier
Cast: Norma Shearer [Mary Elizabeth Dugan], Lewis Stone [Edward West], H.B. Warner [District Attorney Galway], Raymond Hackett [Jimmy Dugan], Lilyan Tashman [Dagmar Lorne], Olive Tell [Mrs. Gertrude Rice], Adrienne D’Ambricourt [Marie Ducrot], De Witt Jennings (DeWitt Jennings) [Police Inspector Hunt], Wilfred North [Judge Nash], Landers Stevens [Doctor Welcome], Mary Doran [Pauline Agguerro], Westcott B. Clarke [Police Captain Price], Charles Moore [James Madison], Claud Allister [Henry James Plaisted], Myra Hampton [May Harris], Drew Demorest [the assistant district attorney], Charles Wagenheim [the court stenographer], Dick Dye [a court attendant], Lew Hicks [a bailiff], Lee Phelps [a bailiff], Thomas A. Curran
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Talking Picture]. / Produced by Irving Thalberg. Screenplay by Becky Gardiner, with dialogue by Bayard Veiller, from the play The Trial of Mary Dugan by Bayard Veiller. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by Adrian (Gilbert Adrian). Cinematography by William Daniels. Sound recording engineers, J.K. Brock and Douglas Shearer. Film editor, Blanche Sewell. / © 20 May 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP386]. Released 8 June 1929. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound version) and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version). Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Shearer’s first sound film. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation in 1929. / Full-sound film.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 27 January 2025.
References: Drew-Speaking p. 31; Everson-Detective p. 51; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 236-238 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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