"Mirth! Melody! Drama! Color!" 08 November 1929 Drama, Music 78 mins
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.
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Colleen Moore as Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray
Raymond Hackett as Jimmy Willet
Fredric March as Gregory Pyne
Virginia Lee Corbin as Claire Floyd
Edward Martindel as Chandler Cunnungham
Adrienne D'Ambricourt as Jo
Frederick Howard as Treasurer
Mickey Bennett as Call boy
Sydney Jarvis as Stage manager
Cleve Moore as Press agent
Ben Hendricks Jr. as Stage doorman
Larry Banthim as Bud Burke
Earl Bartlett as Trio Leader (uncredited)
Nora Cecil as (uncredited)
Carey Wilson Writer
William A. Seiter Director
Thomas J. Geraghty Writer
Henry Freulich Director of Photography
Alois Reiser Original Music Composer
Edward Stevenson Costume Design
Oliver S. Garretson Sound
Sidney Hickox Director of Photography
James Dunne Assistant Director
John McCormick Producer
United States 08 November 1929
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