Happy Days (1929)
September 16, 1929Release Date
Happy Days (1929)
September 16, 1929Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Charles E. Evans
Colonel Billy Batcher
Marjorie White
Margie
Janet Gaynor
Herself
Richard Keene
Dick
Charles Farrell
Himself
Stuart Erwin
Jig
Frank Albertson
Frankie Albertson
Benjamin Stoloff
Director
Rex Bell
Rex Bell
Sidney Lanfield
Writer
Victor McLaglen
Minstrel Show Performer
Edwin J. Burke
Writer
El Brendel
Minstrel Show Performer
William Fox
Producer
Lucien N. Andriot
Cinematographer
George Jessel
Minstrel Show Performer
Will Rogers
Minstrel Show Performer
John Schmitz
Cinematographer
Betty Grable
Chorus Woman
Warner Baxter
Minstrel Show Performer
William Collier Sr.
End Man - Minstrel Show
J. Farrell MacDonald
Train Conductor
Walter Catlett
End Man - Minstrel Show
Tom Kennedy
Doorman (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Happy Days is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, which was the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world, filmed using the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. French director Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927) had a final widescreen segment in what Gance called Polyvision. Paramount released Old Ironsides (1927), with two sequences in a widescreen process called "Magnascope", while MGM released Trail of '98 (1928) in a widescreen process called "Fanthom Screen".The film features an array of stars who were contracted to William Fox's Fox Film Corporation at that time, including Marjorie White, Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, George Jessel, El Brendel, Ann Pennington, Victor McLaglen, Dixie Lee, Edmund Lowe, and Frank Richardson. It also featured the first appearance of Betty Grable on film, aged 12, as a chorus girl, and Sir Harry Lauder's nephew, Harry Lauder II, a conductor for Fox, who was drafted into the chorus.