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Bright Lights (1930)

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
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Louanne
Frank Fay ...
Wally Dean
Noah Beery ...
Miguel Parada
Daphne Pollard ...
Mame Avery
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Connie Lamont
Tom Dugan ...
Tom Avery
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Peggy North
Frank McHugh ...
Fish - a Reporter
Edmund Breese ...
Harris
Edward J. Nugent ...
'Windy' Jones (as Eddie Nugent)
Philip Strange ...
Fairchild
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What a Cast and Story - Crammed With Drama -- Songs -- Girls -- Hatred. And How Dorothy Does That Hula-Hula -- Oh Boy!

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21 September 1930 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Adventures in Africa  »

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(Western Electric Apparatus)

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(TV prints)| (2-strip Technicolor)

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1.37 : 1
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While no Technicolor prints have survived of the complete film, a 2-to-3 minute color clip was recently recovered--a dressing room scene involving Mackaill, Fay, and McHugh. See more »

Soundtracks

"Song of the Congo"
Written by Ned Washington, Ray Perkins & Herb Magidson
Sung by Dorothy Mackaill in a flashback in South Africa
Reprised by her in the current show
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Another reason why musicals fell out of favor in 1930 ...
14 August 1999 | by (Albany NY, USA) – See all my reviews

It is a shame that no Technicolor print of this Vitaphone musical has survived, because the aesthetic oddities of the 2-color process would be a match for this preposterous Broadway story. Star Louanne (Mackaill) plans to marry a rich dud, but deep down pal Wally (Fay). Sadly, Wally is a jerk. There is a flashback to an African local (like Disney's Tarzan, sans Africans), and some silly backstage gunplay. Frank McHugh is swell as a drunk reporter. Mackaill is appealing in the production numbers, but as lost as everyone else with the poor script. Guilty fun for fans of early musicals, though.


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