It's a Great Life
(1929)
94 mins | Musical | 6 December 1929
Director:
Sam WoodWriters:
Byron Morgan, Alfred BlockCinematographer:
Peverell MarleyEditor:
Frank SullivanProduction Designer:
Cedric GibbonsProduction Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.Some contemporary sources reviewed the film under the title Imperfect Ladies.
Rosetta and Vivian Duncan are credited on screen above the main title as The Duncan Sisters, and receive individual billing on the cast card.
The fashion show sequence of the Mandelbaum & Weill Department Store amateur show, and the "Hoosier Hop" and "Sailing On A Sunbeam" numbers were photographed in two-color Technicolor. ...
Some contemporary sources reviewed the film under the title Imperfect Ladies.
Rosetta and Vivian Duncan are credited on screen above the main title as The Duncan Sisters, and receive individual billing on the cast card.
The fashion show sequence of the Mandelbaum & Weill Department Store amateur show, and the "Hoosier Hop" and "Sailing On A Sunbeam" numbers were photographed in two-color Technicolor.
After two sisters, Babe and Casey Hogan, who are employed in the sheet music section of a department store where they also sing and dance, are fired, they take smalltime vaudeville jobs. Babe falls in love with Jimmy Dean, their piano player, and the sisters split up when Babe and Jimmy get married. Ultimately, however, the two girls are reunited and resume their musical ...
After two sisters, Babe and Casey Hogan, who are employed in the sheet music section of a department store where they also sing and dance, are fired, they take smalltime vaudeville jobs. Babe falls in love with Jimmy Dean, their piano player, and the sisters split up when Babe and Jimmy get married. Ultimately, however, the two girls are reunited and resume their musical act.
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