Manhattan Cocktail (1928) was a part-talkie film, directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, and Lilyan Tashman. At the time this movie was made, Hollywood was already making the transition of silent to sound, either making all talking movies, part talking movies, or silent movies with their own soundtrack and sound effects.
| Manhattan Cocktail | |
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| Directed by | Dorothy Arzner |
| Written by | Ethel Doherty (script) George Marion Jr. (titles) Ernest Vajda (story) |
| Produced by | Jesse L. Lasky Adolph Zukor |
| Starring | Nancy Carroll Richard Arlen Lilyan Tashman Paul Lukas |
| Music by | Victor Schertzinger (songs "Gotta Be Good" and "Another Kiss") |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Sound (Part-Talkie) English |
Preservation status
Manhattan Cocktail is a lost film except for a one-minute montage sequence, "Skyline Dance" by Slavko Vorkapich, which was released in October 2005 on the DVD Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894–1941.[1]
Music
The film featured a theme song entitled "Another Kiss" that was composed by Victor L. Schertzinger. Victor Schertzinger also composed a song called "Gotta Be Good" that was also featured in the film.
