Cilly (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cilly |
| Original title | Sally |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Francis Dillon |
| script |
Guy Bolton , Waldemar Young , PG Wodehouse , AP Younger , based on the musical by Florence Ziegfeld junior |
| production | Florence Ziegfeld junior |
| music |
Leo F. Forbstein , Jerome Kern , Leonid S. Leonardi |
| camera |
Devereaux Jennings , Charles Edgar Schoenbaum |
| cut | LeRoy Stone |
| occupation | |
| |
Cilly is a 1929 American musical film directed by John Francis Dillon.
action
Cilly is an orphan and got her name from the phone box she was found in as a baby. She enjoys dancing in the orphanage, has been practicing ever since and wants to become a dancer. However, she does not work as a dancer, but earns her living as a waitress in various cafes. The aristocrat Blair Farquar falls in love with Cilly, but has already been promised to the wealthy Mrs. Ten Brock.
One day, when Cilly stains agent Otis Hooper's suit with food in the café, she is released. Pops Shendorff then employs her in his Balkan Tavern bar, where she can dance for the guests. Cilly becomes famous and Hooper, who knows her from earlier café times, hires her for Mrs. Ten Brock's party when the well-known Russian dancer Noskorova cancels at short notice. She becomes the swarmed star of the evening, but has to realize that her lover Blair and the hostess Mrs. Ten Brock are engaged. She leaves the party and goes into hiding.
Otis Hooper finds her again some time later and hires her as one of his follies for his dance show on Broadway . At the premiere, she finally meets Blair again, who confesses his love for her and marries her shortly afterwards.
background
Originally the film was shown entirely in two-color Technicolor , whereas the film still included today is black and white and only the music and dance scene with the song "Wild Rose" is in color. The fragments of this scene were found in the 1990s and cut into the previously existing black and white film, which was then shown in this capacity on the television station Turner Classic Movies . On an as trailer imaginary and recorded separately roll of film of the Vitaphone (reel no. 3050) Marilyn Miller talks about the movie. The film itself can be found on Vitaphone production rolls No. 3648 to 3659.
The film is an arrangement of the Broadway musical of the same name by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., in which Marilyn Miller also played the title role. It premiered on December 21, 1920 at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York City and was performed 561 times. The last performance on Broadway was on April 22, 1922. At the premiere, Leon Errol was part of the ensemble as "Connie" , while Billie Dove was one of the later performers. Other actors at the premiere were Walter Catlett as "Otis" and Alfred P. James in the role of "Pop". The only songs in the film taken from the Broadway musical are the title track "Sally", "Wild Rose" and "Look for the Silver Lining".
The film, which was also Marilyn Miller's first film, was shot as a silent film back in 1925 , with Leon Errol participating. In September 1928, Warner Bros. acquired the majority of the shares in the film production company First National , which means that from that point on, all First National film productions were under the control of Warner Bros., although both companies had their own productions until the mid-1930s. After that, the brand name A Warner Bros.-First National Picture was often used.
The film was also shown in Germany, e.g. B. At the beginning of December 1930 in Gotha in the cinema “Weisse Wand”, which had just been converted to sound film, also in the UFA -Palast Königstadt or in the Kammerlichtspiele Zwönitz A review appeared in the Hamburger Fremdblatt no. 102 of April 12, 1930 on p.
The librettists Jean Gilbert and Armin L. Robinson wrote German texts on the American melodies by Jerome Kern. The sound film hit “Look for the Silver Lining” became “Roses that May brings us”. The distribution company Defina had it pressed onto a small “Odeonette” gramophone record, which was distributed to the visitors after the performance “In memory of the first color sound film of the First National”. A recording of the title was released, played by the Vincent Lopez Orchestra, with English refraing singing, on the German “Kristall” label .
Awards
Art Director Jack Okey was nominated for the Oscar for best production design at the Academy Awards in November 1930 , but lost to Herman Rosse , who was awarded for the film The Jazz King .
Web links
- Cecily in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Judy Slivi: Gothaer Kinogeschichte from 1900 to 1933, Verlag Rockstuhl, 2015, p. 1859, No. 118.
- ↑ cf. Poster “Marilyn Miller in: Cilly. The miracle of the color sound film. UFA-Palast Königstadt ”(publisher: A. Scherl o. J. (approx. 1930)), ill. at zvab.com
- ↑ cf. Poster shown. in the article by Franziska Muth in the Freie Presse on February 18, 2011.
- ↑ 15 cm (mx. Bm 275), label shown at grammophon-platten.de
- ↑ listen on youtube
