The Shopworn Angel is a 1928 American part-talking sound romantic drama film directed by Richard Wallace starring Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper. The film was released by Paramount Pictures using the Western Electric sound-on-film system. Like the majority of films in the early sound era, a silent version was made for theatres who hadn't converted to sound yet by trimming down the portions of the film that featured talking or singing.
Plot
Cast
- Nancy Carroll as Daisy Heath
- Gary Cooper as William Tyler
- Paul Lukas as Bailey
- Roscoe Karns as the Dance Director
- Emmett King as The Chaplain
- Mildred Washington as Daisy's Maid
- Bert Woodruff as Bit Part (uncredited)
Music
The film's theme song, "A Precious Little Thing Called Love," was composed by Lou Davis and J. Fred Coots. It is sung by Nancy Carroll in the film.
Sound
This film was nearing completion when The Jazz Singer (1927) was released. Dialogue was written for Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll to compete with "talking pictures". The last scene was a wedding and the only lines of dialogue spoken in the film are Cooper's "I do" and Carroll's "I do". In addition, Carroll is also heard singing the theme song.
Preservation status
This film survives in an incomplete form at the Library of Congress.
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
External links
- The Shopworn Angel at IMDb
- The Shopworn Angel at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
