Show Folks

1928 film by Paul L. Stein

October 21, 1928 (1928-10-21)

Running time

70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
(English Intertitles)

Show Folks is a 1928 American part-talkie sound drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, and Carole Lombard.^[1] Although the film featured a few sequences with audible dialogue, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was released in both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film format.

Plot

Cast

Eddie Quillan as Eddie Kehoe
Lina Basquette as Rita Carey
Carole Lombard as Cleo
Robert Armstrong as Owens, the Promoter
Crauford Kent as McNary, a Vaudeville Producer
Bessie Barriscale as Kitty Mayo
Richard Tucker as Vaudeville Performer
Maurice Black as Vaudeville Performer
Joan Bennett as Night Club Patron

Music

The film featured a theme song entitled "No One But Me (Only Me)" which was composed by Billy Stone, Al Koppell and Charles Weinberg. Also featured on the soundtrack was a song entitled "My Heart Keeps On Speaking Of Love" composed by Gus Kahn and Joe Cooper. An additional song heard on the soundtrack was entitled "Love's First Kiss" by Lew Porter and Sam A. Perry.

Preservation

This film survives at the French archive Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in Fort de Bois-d'Arcy, Library of Congress, and UCLA Film and Television Archive.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Gehring p. 62
^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 165, c.1978 by The American Film Institute
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Show Folks