Applause (1929 film)
- Helen Morgan: Kitty Darling
- Joan Peers: April Darling
- Henry Wadsworth: Tony
- Jack Cameron: King
- Roy Hargrave: Slim
- Dorothy Cumming: Mother Superior
Applause is an American film drama from 1929 and the first director Rouben Mamoulian work. The actress Helen Morgan is here also her debut in film. The screenplay is based on the novel by Beth Brown. The premiere was held in New York on January 4, 1930. In Germany the film was first published on 15 April 1973 as a television broadcasting in the third program of the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Action
The vaudeville artist Kitty Darling is the mother of a daughter. Her husband died shortly before the birth of the child. A few years later, she rejects the marriage proposal of her boyfriend King, because she wants to make a career on Broadway. However, the proposal to send their daughter April at a convent school, she accepts.
Years later, Kitty is addicted to alcohol. But on dreaming of a career on stage. She is now with the womanizer Hitch Nelson. When he finds out that Kitty gets money for April's training, he will cause them to get out of school. The now 17 years old April is repelled from the theater environment. But she loves her mother and wants to stay with her. She learns the sailor Tony and falls in love with him. Kitty would be in April, but Hitch is upset. He wants to make April for the star of the stage, because Kitty's career comes to an end. Kitty realizes that Hitch has only used. She sends April to Tony and takes an overdose of sleeping pills. But April is leaving Tony to return to her mother. Kitty is not to carry out their appearance in the position so that April, she represents. She has had great success, but still on the stage, she bursts into tears. Tony, who does not believe that April will really leave him, rushes to April. He and April want to go with Kitty to Wisconsin. But Kitty is now deceased.
Reviews
The lexicon of the International film describes this film as " soulful early talkie melodrama; Rouben Mamoulian suggests in his directorial debut through the innovative use of camera and sound inszenatorisches talent for the new medium. "
Awards
2006, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the " National Film Preservation Board ."
Background
The film is one of the 700 productions of Paramount Pictures, which were filmed 1929-1949 and their television rights were sold to Universal Pictures in 1958.
Except for Dorothy Cumming, the last time was here before the camera, it was for all the actors, the debut in the film.