Lucky Star (1929)
August 18, 1929Release Date
Lucky Star (1929)
August 18, 1929Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Janet Gaynor
Mary Tucker
Charles Farrell
Timothy Osborn
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Sgt. Martin Wrenn
Paul Fix
Joe
Hedwiga Reicher
Mrs. Tucker
Gloria Grey
Mary Smith
Hodwiga Reicher
Mrs. Tucker
Hector V. Sarno
Pop Fry
Jack Pennick
Army Driver (uncredited)
Billy O'Brien
Little Boy
Delmar Watson
Young Tucker (uncredited)
William Fox
Producer
Frank Borzage
Director
Chester A. Lyons
Director of Photography
Katherine Hilliker
Editor / Writer
Joseph E. Aiken
Sound
Sonya Levien
Writer
Harry Oliver
Art Direction
H.H. Caldwell
Editor / Writer
John Hunter Booth
Dialogue
William Cooper Smith
Director of Photography
Lew Borzage
Assistant Director
Tristram Tupper
Original Story
Media.
Details.
Release DateAugust 18, 1929
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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Lucky Star is a 1929 sound part-talkie American romantic drama film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and directed by Frank Borzage. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Movietone sound-on-film system. The plot involves the impact of World War I upon a farm girl (Gaynor) and a returning soldier (Farrell).
The movie was produced by William Fox with cinematography by Chester A. Lyons and William Cooper Smith, and the supporting cast includes Paul Fix and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. In the previous two years, Borzage had also directed Gaynor in 7th Heaven and Street Angel, two of the three films (along with F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans) for which Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress.
The film was produced in two versions- a silent version for the foreign market, and a partly talking version with sound effects and some dialogue for American release. Both versions were thought lost until the silent film was rediscovered in the archives of the Dutch Filmmuseum in the late 1980s and subsequently restored. The talking version of the film remains lost.