Applause (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | applause |
| Original title | Applause |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rouben Mamoulian |
| script | Garrett Fort |
| production |
Monte Bell , Jesse L. Lasky , Walter Wanger |
| camera | George J. Folsey |
| cut | John Bassler |
| occupation | |
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Applause is an American Filmmelodram from the year 1929 and the first directorial effort by Rouben Mamoulian . The leading actress Helen Morgan also makes her film debut here. The script is based on the novel by Beth Brown of the same name. It premiered on January 4, 1930 in New York City. In Germany, the film first appeared on April 15, 1973 as a television broadcast in the third program of Bavarian Radio .
action
The vaudeville artist Kitty Darling has a daughter. Her husband died shortly before the child was born. A few years later, she turned down her boyfriend King's proposal of marriage because she wanted to make a career on Broadway. However, she accepts the proposal to send her daughter April to a convent school.
Years later, Kitty became addicted to alcohol. But she continues to dream of a stage career. She is now dating the womanizer Hitch Nelson. When he finds out that Kitty is getting money for April's education, he wants to have her fetched from school. The meanwhile 17 year old April is repulsed by the theater environment. But she loves her mother and wants to stay with her. She meets the sailor Tony and falls in love with him. Kitty is happy for April, but Hitch is upset. He wants to make April a stage star because Kitty's career is coming to an end. Kitty realizes that Hitch was just using her. She sends April to Tony and takes an overdose of sleeping pills. But April leaves Tony to go back to her mother. Kitty is unable to perform, so April replaces her. She is very successful, but still on stage she bursts into tears. Tony, who doesn't think April really wants to leave him, rushes to April. He and April plan to move to Wisconsin with Kitty. But Kitty has since passed away.
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films describes this film as “soulful early sound film melodrama; In his directorial debut, Rouben Mamoulian already reveals his talent for the new medium through the innovative use of camera and sound. "
Awards
In 2006 the film was entered into the National Film Registry of the National Film Preservation Board .
background
The film is one of 700 Paramount Pictures productions shot between 1929 and 1949, the television rights of which were sold to Universal Pictures in 1958 .
Except for Dorothy Cumming, who was in front of the camera for the last time, it was the film debut for all actors.
Web links
- Applause in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ applause. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 12, 2015 .
- ↑ http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2006/06-234.html