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Making the Grade
Also known as [Makin’ the Grade]
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5903 feet / 63 minutes
Directed by Alfred E. Green

Cast: Edmund Lowe [Herbert Littell Dodsworth], Lois Moran [Lettie Ewing], Lucien Littlefield [Silas Cooper], Albert Hart [the lawyer], James Ford [Bud Davison], Rolfe Sedan [the valet], John Alden [Egbert Williamson], Sherman Ross [Arthur Burdette], Gino Conti [Frank Dinwiddie], Mary Ashley [Lettie’s friend], Lia Tora [another of Lettie’s friends]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Executive producer, William Fox. Scenario by Harry Brand and Edward Kaufman, with dialogue by Malcolm Stuart Boylan, from the short story “Making the Grade” by George Ade. Assistant director, Jack Boland. Cinematography by L.W. O’Connell and Norman Devol. Sound recording engineer, Barney Fredericks. Film editor, J. Edwin Robbins. Intertitles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Music score by Erno Rapee. Presented by William Fox. / © 25 February 1929 by Fox Film Corporation [LP151]. Released 17 February 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version (at 5024 feet) by Fox Film Corporation in 1929. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 1 July 2012.

References: Website-AFI.

 
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