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Director
  
Alfred E. Green

Screenplay
  
June Mathis

Country
  
United States

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Genre
  
Comedy

Duration
  

Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Release date
  
March 29, 1925 (1925-03-29)

Writer
  
Guy Bolton (play), Clifford Grey (play), June Mathis

Initial release
  
March 15, 1925 (New York City)

Music director
  
Harry Tierney, Joseph McCarthy

Cast
  
Colleen Moore
(Sally),
Leon Errol
(Duke of Checkergovinia),
Eva Novak
(Rosie Lafferty),
Lloyd Hughes
(Blair Farquar),
Myrtle Stedman
(Mrs Ten Brock)

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Sally is a 1925 silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green, produced by Moore's husband John McCormick (1893–1961), and based on the musical Sally written by Guy Bolton, Clifford Grey, and adapted to film by June Mathis. The film was based on a Florenz Ziegfeld production written specifically for Marilyn Miller that opened on December 21, 1920 at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway. It ran for 570 performances.

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Sally of the sawdust


Cast

  • Colleen Moore as Sally
  • Lloyd Hughes as Blair Farquar
  • Leon Errol as Duke of Checkergovinia
  • Dan Mason as Pops Shendorf
  • John T. Murray as Otis Hooper
  • Eva Novak as Rosie Lafferty/Eleanor Hadley
  • Charles Murray as Pa O'Dare
  • Production

    During the production of this film, Colleen met a young gag man who worked for Alfred Green who billed himself as a “comedy constructor,” named Mervyn LeRoy. They would become good friends and LeRoy would eventually direct Colleen in her film Oh, Kay!.

    Preservation status

    The film is considered lost, but a short sequence of color film may have been discovered, as reported by Ron Hutchinson of the Vitaphone project: "Malcolm Billingsley has discovered a previously unknown cache of 45- 75 second 35mm Technicolor nitrate spools with previously lost color scenes from ON WITH THE SHOW, SHOW OF SHOWS , SALLY and GOLD DIGGERS OF BROADWAY." / post on Nitrateville discussion board.

    When in February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of his pre-1950 films to Associated Artists Productions (which merged with United Artists Television in 1958. In 1969 UA donated 16mm prints of some Warner Bros. films from outside the United States to foreign archive.

    References

    Sally (1925 film) Wikipedia
    Sally (1925 film) IMDb