Never a dull moment! Those were the days when family. friends, making a buck & lots of humor kept everyone’s love together! Wish life was like that now ♥️
What a wonderful golden oldie , great little story .Thank you for sharing , the old classics are becoming harder to find unless you want to pay to see them all ,witch would add up to a small fortune to see them all ! So much greed in the world , karma will come to them , blessings to you all that share from your heart the love of sharing these great old classic ,so thanks again your appreciated ! 👍🏼🙏❤️🇨🇦
This is the third Janet Gaynor/Charlie Farrell pairing I've seen, and they're all adorable. I only remembered Farrell from my childhood days of black & white TV when he played Vern Albright in My Little Margie with Gale Storm - I only recently found out that he was a matinee idol of the 20s and 30s and quite handsome at that - he actually aged well. Loved this story.
Charles Farrell may have aged well, but his acting did not. If he had not had a body of work before his television days, you wouldn't have known he could act. I often wondered what happened to him once he was on MY LITTLE MARGIE. His acting on that show was not as good as his previous work, unfortunately.
“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 NIV ROMANS 10:9-11 “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame” Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”” Luke 19:10 God wants us to believe in His One and Only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, who died for our sins :D When we truly believe in our hearts that Jesus is the Son of God, who died for our sins so we could have eternal life with God, we are saved from the eternal fire and have eternal life in Christ Jesus!! 💖 May God bless you all! 🕊💞
This is an adorable film❤ I was eating ice cream, and when that girl asked the other, "what the hell are you crying about?" I almost choked on that ice cream laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My great aunt Annie saw this movie when it came out in 1929. 65 years later, just before she died, she told me about it and expressed a wish to see it one more time. Unfortunately, it wasn't available.
One of the best things about the internet is having access to so many otherwise forgotten or obscure films.... and the huge hits of the silent and early talkies that have been unavailable.
What a cute movie! I loved the musical #s so much and they had the strangest dancing styles back then. Odd arm movements. I noticed too in these old movies that alot of the women didn't hold their hands on their hips the way that we do now but with the backs of their hands on their hips so their elbows stick way out. Peculiar. I loved his facial expressions like scrunching his nose at her! They were an adorable couple and I dropped a couple of tears at the end. Thank you so much. One of my faves now.
Not so strange, it was Twenties expressive. For another really good sample, do see the jungle girls doing "The Monkey Doodle Doo" (Irving Berlin) in the Marx Bros. picture "The Cocoanuts" (1929) Also, notice a Mrs. Potter being savagely insulted all throughout! She was a distinguished society matron, and deserved much better. My guess is the TH-cam has it available somewhere.
Lovely musical, I believe, the very first talkie that Farrell and Gaynor made after all those silent films. The pairing of the little redhead and the All-American boy would be intact for a few more films after this before they became history.
Whoa! just under 3 and a half million dollars to make this in 1929? That amount of money, at that year's conversion rate, and especially during such period of financial upheaval that time is truly mind boggling! Great movie!
In spending 3.5 million dollars in 1929 money to make an original musical film that was not based upon a Broadway production, it is no surprise to me now that the FOX Films Board Of Directors and shareholders ousted William Fox in a hostile takeover of the company, and ended up merging with upstart 20th Century Pictures in 1935.
Jackie Cooper as the little kid Jerry McGinnis at the 4th of July block party as he ran off the stage saying he had to pee ! .... Great musical comedy.....No wonder Janet Gaynor became a sought after star....... and Zowee !! those bathing beauties !
1929. Man I WISH the fashion of the 1910's and 1920's would hurry up and return. Flapper Era. Men in hats. Women dressed so lovely. I I'd even love 1940's fashion. People as a whole were just so well put together in the 10s,20s and 40s. 30s fashion never really stands out to me as it was an in between of 20s and 40s.
Glad to find this. I always wanted to to see the film with the 'Turn on the Heat' dance number with the inflatable bananas after seeing a clip of it on the 1982 film It Came From Hollywood.
Delighted to have this at last! And in the longer version. My vhs recorder was up the creek last time I remember this being on so a very big thank-you indeed!
This movie is remarkable! I love the scenes where the crowds are gathered and you feel that "neighborhood" feel, like you're watching something from outside your front door or window. Keep your sunnyside up! Janet Gaynor over Kylie Jenner anyday of the year.
Look for the Shirley Temple movie, JUST AROUND THE CORNER. He plays her father, Jeff Hale. His acting was good in that one. Too bad he was just a supporting character in a Shirley Temple movie, though.
Most actors didn't make the transition from silent to sound films, and those that did, in many cases, needed vocal training. The Janet Gaynor here does not sound like the one of a few years later, but she was William Fox's number-one female star, and got the help she needed.
Advances in recording sound and changes in singing styles helped tremendously. I have been shocked many times when I first heard several singers who were considered talented and amazing....to my 21st century ears they were....awful!!
while seeing this on youtube is thrilling, imagine the magic of seeing a production such as this runnung in the Blackhawk theatre in waterloo Iowa in 1929. It must have been the talk of the town. Just a swell film. Really enjoyed it.
carol tenge my mom told me she saw this in the theater and thought it the first full ‘talking picture’ the jazz singer only talked when Jolson sang. My mom was six when she saw it in 1929.
For its time 🕰movie is EXCELLENT actors very good opening of movie spectacular director was way ahead In his craft movie was really very entertaining yeah I give lots of stars 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
How many folks would even know she was the recipient the first Academy Award...for 3 acting roles! That soon changed- but she was chosen for her body of work over 1927 -1928
Implying that, relatively speaking, days past were somehow less free or more reserved is inaccurate at best. The sins of the ages are nothing new, they are, quite simply, repetitions of ancient behaviours of fallen man: in his pride, in his vanity, in his free will. Sodom and Gomorrah were cesspools of perversion, lust, and sexual immorality; the days of Noah were an utter abomination. History simply repeats itself, because we learn nothing from it, from ourselves. The world did not, in some past age, conspire against itself and its future inhabitants. Such stereotypes are not drawn from thin air, they are the carefully honed observations garnered over thousands of years. The bigoted, fake enlightenment of today which thinks it can change the future by revising the past is casually discarding valid information. Such statements are myopic and naïve. But even worse, they are designed to make us feel superior to people and an age we don't bother to know or understand. Modernity suggests to us that we are the masters of history, the arbiters of life and death. Our compassion for the suffering is always expressed, ultimately, in our willingness to kill, without remorse. Euthanasia, sexual immorality, and abortion holocausts are perhaps the final culmination of ancient vices of an intemperate, negligent human condition, the culmination of the kind of horror that can occur when man loses his integrity, his belief in the sanctity of human life.
Flu x You try to make people think you know so much. Yet you know nothing. Not one mention in your essay on the “sanctity of human life” of the word “war.” No, it’s the domestic - the home, women’s - vices that put you in an uproar about “man” and “mankind.” The fact is, you’re obsessed with sex and little else.
My late beloved grandmother was born in 1890! I was so fortunate to know and live with her as a child. She was active in the early unions and the struggle for garment worker rights. Her name is Eva Wood (maiden name Golub) and she lived into her 90s. Unfortunately most of the people who lived through the Depression are no longer alive. We could learn so much from them.
The technology made great advances in just two years and continued making advances very quickly. In the case of Fox Films, they already had an advantage having introduced the Fox Movietone Newsreel in 1927 using the sound-on-film process and had a partnership with Western Electric in its continued development and refinements.
An interesting example of the short-lived era of Hollywood musicals before Astaire/Rogers and Busby Berkeley revolutionized the genre. Janet Gaynor would be adorable washing dishes but she knew she wasn't much of a singer/dancer and later on stipulated in her new contract she would stick to acting.
That's interesting, with the advent of sound almost every star was pushed to sing & dance, regardless of talent. Early on Joan Crawford at MGM sang/danced but...thankfully her real talent - dramatic acting was featured.
@@RayPointerChannel it was her own performance that convinced Janet to forego singing in her future movies, that was Ms Gaynors opinion, not mine. The studios later dubbed non-singing stars with voice talents like Marni Nixon. It was quite common with stars like Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood.
Very interesting the way this film uses silent techniques with follow shots that the sound baffled cameras would not allow later. This is shot ‘Italian style’ adding sound after assembling picture.
Adding sound "after assembling" the picture was not unique to the "Italian Style." Post-production sound was realized early one in American films, especially once Interlock dubbing became available. Early sound cartoons were recorded Post-sync, and the most famous of them were the Fleischer cartoons produced in New York. By the mid 30s there seemed to be a mixture of Pre-recorded and Post-recorded tracks with some amount of mixing involved in Post-Production. But in 1929, they were still trying to find out how to use the technology with its early limitations. That is what is so fascinating about these early sound films. They cleverly worked around the technology to make an engaging film.
Also amazing was the Pre Code material considering for 1929 @the beginning of the film ie@3:00 the Italian man tells his wife that HE'S THE BOSSA!! (Under the bed!!) & 3:40 the Mother with EIGHT KIDS being told (by a magazine salesperson) about BIRTH CONTROL!! "NOW YOU TELLS ME!!" she says. That's pretty daring considering that a few years later the PRODUCTION CODE WAS ESTABLISHED.
Loved Janet Gaynor in “Sunrise” and even more so with Charles Farrell in “7th Heaven”.....then heard their actual voices in this flick 😳... I somewhat recovered from that painful shock, but the length of this lumbering musical was as hard to bear as their cringe singing🥺
17:55-19:46: They can not seem to keep tempo at all. There is a significant difference between the tempo at the beginning and end. Amateur hour: musicians, actors, direction.
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in the films "7th Heaven" (1927) and follow-up "Street Angel" (1928) were very good. These were well produced, well shot, well acted, quality silent-era films, so much better then this "talkie". Charles Farrell, in particular, did not transition well into talking pictures.
Star buono, I loved watching 'my little Margie'. It was a great show, always fun to watch. I also watched Topper in that era, if that helps jog your memory. They were on in the 1950s, I don’t remember the years, I was a child then.
@@gracieallen8285 My favorite episodes are Episode #1, REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY, as well as VERN'S NEW GIRL FRIEND, MARGIE BABY SITS, and HONEYPOT HONEYWELL. They are on TH-cam.
I always thought that ""Sunnyside up" was a classic great depression keep smilin' song when in fact it apparently pre-dates that era. who woulda ' thunk it?
It was still the roaring twenties when this film came out, the stock market crash hadn't happened yet. People were still in good spirits when this film came out, and it was a big hit at the time
Why do so many of the girls in these films look like they are 13 years old, flat chested and talk like teenagers? Where were the voluptuous, jiggling, wiggling sensuous females at that time? 1929 was the era of 'flappers', wildness and awaking, not time for 'Andy Hardy' movies? Little stale I'd say!
This film premiered just three weeks before Black Tuesday which sparked over a decade of America's worse economic depression. Janet Gaynor's character, Molly, is a poor girl from Yorkville, N.Y. which most viewers did not know was and is one of the most affluent areas of Manhattan. One wonders how accurate this Hollywood portrayal of lower class life in the big city was, but it is unlikely to have been as happy for the inhabitants as the wealthy Jewish producers of these films wanted the rest of the country to believe. (Is it allowed to mention their religion?)
No it wouldn't have much to do with their religion... For as far as I know there were certain rules for if you wanted to depict areas where the lower classes lived. You couldn't show extreme poverty, filth, unhygienic conditions etc. In other words you simply weren't allowed to show the truth. Think West Side Story years later, also doesn't really look what it was like.
@@keithharvey6354 Olive Thomas the actress(died 1920). If I knew my aunt's neighbors they probably wouldn't have that kind of name. They would rather be an "Fernando Gonçalves" or an "Julia Fonseca"...
El Brendel portrayed that type of character. So is the issue the actor and his character or showing a person of that sort which existed? Pretending such people never existed is the same as pretending that there were no slums, poverty, or dirty things in the world. It's called denial of truth and reality. It's too bad that some people today are so hypersensitive about such things.
The Song Plugger is worse. The Director should have told him that he did not have to play to the back rows. He was obviously some third rate Vaudeville performer who already had the habit of "projecting," not understanding that there was a microphone.
A lovely film, and one of the first original film musicals. It is such a joy to see Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor on screen together.
Janet Gaynor is adorable singing, dancing, or even washing the dishes!
I discovered If I had A Talking Picture Of You for months now and today in 2023 decided to watch this pictures. ❤😊 Classic
Never a dull moment! Those were the days when family. friends, making a buck & lots of humor kept everyone’s love together! Wish life was like that now ♥️
What a wonderful golden oldie , great little story .Thank you for sharing , the old classics are becoming harder to find unless you want to pay to see them all ,witch would add up to a small fortune to see them all ! So much greed in the world , karma will come to them , blessings to you all that share from your heart the love of sharing these great old classic ,so thanks again your appreciated ! 👍🏼🙏❤️🇨🇦
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This is the third Janet Gaynor/Charlie Farrell pairing I've seen, and they're all adorable. I only remembered Farrell from my childhood days of black & white TV when he played Vern Albright in My Little Margie with Gale Storm - I only recently found out that he was a matinee idol of the 20s and 30s and quite handsome at that - he actually aged well. Loved this story.
Charles Farrell may have aged well, but his acting did not. If he had not had a body of work before his television days, you wouldn't have known he could act. I often wondered what happened to him once he was on MY LITTLE MARGIE. His acting on that show was not as good as his previous work, unfortunately.
“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9 NIV
ROMANS 10:9-11 “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame”
Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.””
Luke 19:10
God wants us to believe in His One and Only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, who died for our sins :D When we truly believe in our hearts that Jesus is the Son of God, who died for our sins so we could have eternal life with God, we are saved from the eternal fire and have eternal life in Christ Jesus!! 💖 May God bless you all! 🕊💞
97 years ago. Love how they celebrated the 4th of July. God Bless America.
These old movies are so amazing! I love viewing them and seeing a much earlier time.
I love these old films too, and the old music that goes along with them. It's an escape for me from all the bs of today's world
I love all the pairings of Farrell and Gaynor.. Plus he has the most gorgeous head of hair I've ever seen!
This is an adorable film❤
I was eating ice cream, and when that girl asked the other, "what the hell are you crying about?" I almost choked on that ice cream laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fantastic long shot at the beginning of the film. Quite extraordinary for an early sound film.
Love Gaynor's work she was so talented and beautiful
My great aunt Annie saw this movie when it came out in 1929. 65 years later, just before she died, she told me about it and expressed a wish to see it one more time. Unfortunately, it wasn't available.
One of the best things about the internet is having access to so many otherwise forgotten or obscure films.... and the huge hits of the silent and early talkies that have been unavailable.
😢
What a cute movie! I loved the musical #s so much and they had the strangest dancing styles back then. Odd arm movements. I noticed too in these old movies that alot of the women didn't hold their hands on their hips the way that we do now but with the backs of their hands on their hips so their elbows stick way out. Peculiar. I loved his facial expressions like scrunching his nose at her! They were an adorable couple and I dropped a couple of tears at the end. Thank you so much. One of my faves now.
Not so strange, it was Twenties expressive. For another really good sample, do see the jungle girls doing "The Monkey Doodle Doo" (Irving Berlin) in the Marx Bros. picture "The Cocoanuts" (1929) Also, notice a Mrs. Potter being savagely insulted all throughout! She was a distinguished society matron, and deserved much better.
My guess is the TH-cam has it available somewhere.
Janet Gaynor, what a lovely young lady. Endearing personality. A window into when my parents were young. Fabulous movies and times.
Lovely musical, I believe, the very first talkie that Farrell and Gaynor made after all those silent films. The pairing of the little redhead and the All-American boy would be intact for a few more films after this before they became history.
One MORE thing, I cried at the end. We girls do that. Just a great show, thanks so, Carol
Tears filled my eyes at the end as well, Carol. Now that is romance! :).
carol tenge : Of course. It's a version of "Cinderella." In other words, a fairy tale -- albeit a somewhat twisted Hollywood version.
The land of tears is such a secret place.
Whoa! just under 3 and a half million dollars to make this in 1929? That amount of money, at that year's conversion rate, and especially during such period of financial upheaval that time is truly mind boggling! Great movie!
In spending 3.5 million dollars in 1929 money to make an original musical film that was not based upon a Broadway production, it is no surprise to me now that the FOX Films Board Of Directors and shareholders ousted William Fox in a hostile takeover of the company, and ended up merging with upstart 20th Century Pictures in 1935.
The Crash was not until the last week of October.
Very nice old musical.Everybody in it is good, especially Marjorie White, who is so cute and funny!
Marjorie White was in the first Three Stooges Columbia Short Woman haters..she was killed in an auto crash a few months later
Jackie Cooper as the little kid Jerry McGinnis at the 4th of July block party as he ran off the stage saying he had to pee ! .... Great musical comedy.....No wonder Janet Gaynor became a sought after star....... and Zowee !! those bathing beauties !
Keep your Sunnyside up.
1929.
Man I WISH the fashion of the 1910's and 1920's would hurry up and return. Flapper Era. Men in hats. Women dressed so lovely. I
I'd even love 1940's fashion. People as a whole were just so well put together in the 10s,20s and 40s.
30s fashion never really stands out to me as it was an in between of 20s and 40s.
First time I ever saw Janet Gaynor sign and dance.
Some great numbers in this: "Turn on the Heat"! Thank you!
I thought this one was lost.. Thanks! Didn't know Jackie Cooper was in it too.
1:52 "Well what the Hell are you crying about"Lmao!!!😂😂😂
Glad to find this. I always wanted to to see the film with the 'Turn on the Heat' dance number with the inflatable bananas after seeing a clip of it on the 1982 film It Came From Hollywood.
A very young Janet Gaynor man what a doll
She was a star in silent films before this. Now THAT is when she were "very young."
Very sweet!
Delighted to have this at last! And in the longer version. My vhs recorder was up the creek last time I remember this being on so a very big thank-you indeed!
Multicolor sequence lost - printed in black and white. The process used the 1918 Prizamacolor process.
A Wonderful way to spend two hours!
I love this movie & lucky star. This pair are amazing & really show how they feel even in a silent film. Now I have to find the music for this movie
those depression era movies and songs did so much to keep people going.... PS Jackie Cooper !!! at 2:01:39 wow
This movie is remarkable! I love the scenes where the crowds are gathered and you feel that "neighborhood" feel, like you're watching something from outside your front door or window. Keep your sunnyside up! Janet Gaynor over Kylie Jenner anyday of the year.
Yes, in 1929. It's so cool, as are the clothes. And the Eskimo show is just awesome.
I agree with you Priscilla 100%
Awesome to see Charles Farrell of My Little Margie when a young man. Shocked me! With Janet Gaynor too! Totally awesome movie for 1929.
Look for the Shirley Temple movie, JUST AROUND THE CORNER. He plays her father, Jeff Hale. His acting was good in that one. Too bad he was just a supporting character in a Shirley Temple movie, though.
The song "Keep your Sunnyside Up" at 42 minutes
Thanks!
I have a 1929 copy of this music framed on my wall by my piano...I’ve even played it! I love seeing it performed!
It was a big hit at the time this film came out in 1929
Most actors didn't make the transition from silent to sound films, and those that did, in many cases, needed vocal training. The Janet Gaynor here does not sound like the one of a few years later, but she was William Fox's number-one female star, and got the help she needed.
Advances in recording sound and changes in singing styles helped tremendously.
I have been shocked many times when I first heard several singers who were considered talented and amazing....to my 21st century ears they were....awful!!
Gosh. Miss Gaynor and Miss White are so darn cute!
That’s a hell of an opening shot
1:20:55 IF I HAD A TALKING PICTURE OF YOU duet
1:58:39 IF I HAD A TALKING PICTURE OF YOU piano solo by CHARLES FARRELL
while seeing this on youtube is thrilling, imagine the magic of seeing a production such as this runnung in the Blackhawk theatre in waterloo Iowa in 1929. It must have been the talk of the town. Just a swell film. Really enjoyed it.
It didn't swell on my monitor, it stayed the same size the whole time.
carol tenge my mom told me she saw this in the theater and thought it the first full ‘talking picture’ the jazz singer only talked when Jolson sang. My mom was six when she saw it in 1929.
carol tenge
If anything swelled, it was the bad smell of poverty along with the love of others helping each other!
The little baby at 3:39 is probably one of the few still living people in the movie. That person must be at least 92 years old
You just discovered your own mortality and can't get over the idea that people die?
Such a great movie and dance number!
For its time 🕰movie is EXCELLENT actors very good opening of movie spectacular director was way ahead
In his craft movie was really very entertaining yeah I give lots of stars 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Great Janet Gaynor movie!
How many folks would even know she was the recipient the first Academy Award...for 3 acting roles! That soon changed- but she was chosen for her body of work over 1927 -1928
what a fun movie, thx 4 sharing...
Hilarious & lovely.
loved it! thanks for posting
What a wonderful movie about a group of corky friends they are all just great!💯👍😊😁😃🙂☺👍🍿🥤 thank you for sharing this great movie 🥰🥤🍿👍
i love gaynor
"This is not 1890"... So old of a line. 😀
Why got a little too slow for me and film grainy so was hard to watch for me.
Implying that, relatively speaking, days past were somehow less free or more reserved is inaccurate at best. The sins of the ages are nothing new, they are, quite simply, repetitions of ancient behaviours of fallen man: in his pride, in his vanity, in his free will. Sodom and Gomorrah were cesspools of perversion, lust, and sexual immorality; the days of Noah were an utter abomination. History simply repeats itself, because we learn nothing from it, from ourselves.
The world did not, in some past age, conspire against itself and its future inhabitants. Such stereotypes are not drawn from thin air, they are the carefully honed observations garnered over thousands of years. The bigoted, fake enlightenment of today which thinks it can change the future by revising the past is casually discarding valid information. Such statements are myopic and naïve. But even worse, they are designed to make us feel superior to people and an age we don't bother to know or understand.
Modernity suggests to us that we are the masters of history, the arbiters of life and death. Our compassion for the suffering is always expressed, ultimately, in our willingness to kill, without remorse. Euthanasia, sexual immorality, and abortion holocausts are perhaps the final culmination of ancient vices of an intemperate, negligent human condition, the culmination of the kind of horror that can occur when man loses his integrity, his belief in the sanctity of human life.
Flu x You try to make people think you know so much. Yet you know nothing. Not one mention in your essay on the “sanctity of human life” of the word “war.” No, it’s the domestic - the home, women’s - vices that put you in an uproar about “man” and “mankind.” The fact is, you’re obsessed with sex and little else.
My late beloved grandmother was born in 1890! I was so fortunate to know and live with her as a child. She was active in the early unions and the struggle for garment worker rights. Her name is Eva Wood (maiden name Golub) and she lived into her 90s. Unfortunately most of the people who lived through the Depression are no longer alive. We could learn so much from them.
@@flu42o I wonder why you're subscribed to so many different channels, especially when some of the channels are enemies of each other.
@03:50 The lady shopper is Mary Gordon. Probably best remembered as Mrs Hudson, Sherlock Holmes landlady in the Basil Rathbone films.
this only two years after The Jazz Singer with Jolson.
The technology made great advances in just two years and continued making advances very quickly. In the case of Fox Films, they already had an advantage having introduced the Fox Movietone Newsreel in 1927 using the sound-on-film process and had a partnership with Western Electric in its continued development and refinements.
An interesting example of the short-lived era of Hollywood musicals before Astaire/Rogers and Busby Berkeley revolutionized the genre. Janet Gaynor would be adorable washing dishes but she knew she wasn't much of a singer/dancer and later on stipulated in her new contract she would stick to acting.
That's interesting, with the advent of sound almost every star was pushed to sing & dance, regardless of talent.
Early on Joan Crawford at MGM sang/danced but...thankfully her real talent - dramatic acting was featured.
She was "good enough" for KEEP YOUR SUNNY SIDE UP.
@@RayPointerChannel it was her own performance that convinced Janet to forego singing in her future movies, that was Ms Gaynors opinion, not mine.
The studios later dubbed non-singing stars with voice talents like Marni Nixon. It was quite common with stars like Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood.
Thank you for such a marvelous film.
Very interesting the way this film uses silent techniques with follow shots that the sound baffled cameras would not allow later. This is shot ‘Italian style’ adding sound after assembling picture.
Adding sound "after assembling" the picture was not unique to the "Italian Style." Post-production sound was realized early one in American films, especially once Interlock dubbing became available. Early sound cartoons were recorded Post-sync, and the most famous of them were the Fleischer cartoons produced in New York. By the mid 30s there seemed to be a mixture of Pre-recorded and Post-recorded tracks with some amount of mixing involved in Post-Production. But in 1929, they were still trying to find out how to use the technology with its early limitations. That is what is so fascinating about these early sound films. They cleverly worked around the technology to make an engaging film.
Who here in 2020
Me here.
Wow, Pre-Code was pretty wild 😮 😅
Amazing camera work in the opening scene. Sound perfectly recorded as well.
Paul Fabre yes I agree. Almost a Hitchcock style
It is amazing, especially when you consider the limitations of the early talkies.
Also amazing was the Pre Code material considering for 1929 @the beginning of the film ie@3:00 the Italian man tells his wife that HE'S THE BOSSA!! (Under the bed!!) & 3:40 the Mother with EIGHT KIDS being told (by a magazine salesperson) about BIRTH CONTROL!! "NOW YOU TELLS ME!!" she says. That's pretty daring considering that a few years later the PRODUCTION CODE WAS ESTABLISHED.
@@kevinnorman2937 It was made for adults. Censorship reduced everything to the level of children.
thanks! its impossible to find this anywhere
Bowl Hair cuts. I've been there!
If 1929 don't come back I'Mgoing back to 1929 I'll Take The Packard
Very young Jackie Cooper around 40:00 mark.
🔵🎼I'LL ASKA IF SHE LOVES, I'LL ASKA TO BE MINE, I'LL ASKA TO BE MY WIFE TILL THE END OF TIME🎶🔴
We need to search for the Multicolor sequences.
Cute video
Loved Janet Gaynor in “Sunrise” and even more so with Charles Farrell in “7th Heaven”.....then heard their actual voices in this flick 😳...
I somewhat recovered from that painful shock, but the length of this lumbering musical was as hard to bear as their cringe singing🥺
it is miracle
The dialogue is painfully slow. A problem in lots of early talkies.
Jackie Cooper was adorable...at around 40:40.
Charles Farrell has a high-pitched John Gilbert voice..beautiful guy though.❤🇨🇦
17:55-19:46: They can not seem to keep tempo at all. There is a significant difference between the tempo at the beginning and end. Amateur hour: musicians, actors, direction.
Maybe, but don't you see that amateurism can be charming in an old film?
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in the films "7th Heaven" (1927)
and follow-up "Street Angel" (1928) were very good. These were well produced, well shot, well acted, quality silent-era films, so much better then this "talkie". Charles Farrell, in particular, did not transition well into talking pictures.
The first song reminded me of some Tom Waits song.
Any chance you could upload in 1080p instead of 240p?
40 mins The awful kid was Jackie Cooper.
No Right to Lifers lurking on the Block. Way to go Margaret Sanger!!
BTW: Pretty good Tenement Block Production.
Old Coot. Born 1933!.
Very nice to see a very young Jackie Cooper@40:40 before his pre Our Gang Comedies (he was signed with them later that year).
He was young when he became famous in Skippy and The Champ about this time.
I'm getting ready for the '20s.
Was the TV show " My Little Margie " a very popular show in the 50s? I had never even heard of it and I thought I knew all the Tv shows of the past !
Star buono, I loved watching 'my little Margie'. It was a great show, always fun to watch. I also watched Topper in that era, if that helps jog your memory. They were on in the 1950s, I don’t remember the years, I was a child then.
@@gracieallen8285 My favorite episodes are Episode #1, REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY, as well as VERN'S NEW GIRL FRIEND, MARGIE BABY SITS, and HONEYPOT HONEYWELL. They are on TH-cam.
I always thought that ""Sunnyside up" was a classic great depression keep smilin' song when in fact it apparently pre-dates that era. who woulda ' thunk it?
It was still the roaring twenties when this film came out, the stock market crash hadn't happened yet. People were still in good spirits when this film came out, and it was a big hit at the time
Thought it.
How many 1920's/30's songs have the word "sun" in them? I've heard a few of them, and they're great.
Is that Jackie Cooper at 40:19?
+Movie Maker According to imdb.com, yes it is.
YES!
Does anyone know if they actually say sunnyside up anywhere in the dialogue?
Yes, very late, after the Yorkville crew return from Southampton, someone (Eric?) says it to Molly.
All the people in the party of the life. They didnt know that the Crack was coming Up.
I think you mean "The Crash." That's the risk of living in a fantasy world.
This film belongs to El Brendel.
swiss cheese 50¢ an lb!!!!
Why do so many of the girls in these films look like they are 13 years old, flat chested and talk like teenagers? Where were the voluptuous, jiggling, wiggling sensuous females at that time? 1929 was the era of 'flappers', wildness and awaking, not time for 'Andy Hardy' movies? Little stale I'd say!
This film premiered just three weeks before Black Tuesday which sparked over a decade of America's worse economic depression. Janet Gaynor's character, Molly, is a poor girl from Yorkville, N.Y. which most viewers did not know was and is one of the most affluent areas of Manhattan. One wonders how accurate this Hollywood portrayal of lower class life in the big city was, but it is unlikely to have been as happy for the inhabitants as the wealthy Jewish producers of these films wanted the rest of the country to believe. (Is it allowed to mention their religion?)
No it wouldn't have much to do with their religion... For as far as I know there were certain rules for if you wanted to depict areas where the lower classes lived. You couldn't show extreme poverty, filth, unhygienic conditions etc. In other words you simply weren't allowed to show the truth. Think West Side Story years later, also doesn't really look what it was like.
Not really as the so called "Christians" are wealthy greedy and mean as well. Didn't see much of the Hamptons either.
Janet Gaynor beared some resemblance to Olive Thomas
Was she your aunt's neighbour?
@@keithharvey6354 Olive Thomas the actress(died 1920). If I knew my aunt's neighbors they probably wouldn't have that kind of name. They would rather be an "Fernando Gonçalves" or an "Julia Fonseca"...
They couldn't make fun of Swedish Immigrants today!
El Brendel portrayed that type of character. So is the issue the actor and his character or showing a person of that sort which existed? Pretending such people never existed is the same as pretending that there were no slums, poverty, or dirty things in the world. It's called denial of truth and reality. It's too bad that some people today are so hypersensitive about such things.
two hours of torture here.
Some movie patrons sitting through this film in 1929 felt the same way.....
I agree
Gaynor's voice is extremely annoying! So whiny! However I didn't mind it when she was singing!
Janet Gaynor has a lovely voice! It was why she easily made the transition from silent star to sound and became a bigger star!
The Song Plugger is worse. The Director should have told him that he did not have to play to the back rows. He was obviously some third rate Vaudeville performer who already had the habit of "projecting," not understanding that there was a microphone.
Global warming, 1929 style!