The Trial of Mary Dugan

The Trial of Mary Dugan is a 1929 drama film directed by Bayard Veiller. The film is based on the 1927 play from.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Mary Dugan is an attractive showgirl, whose wealthy lover is found dead in the apartment he had bought for her. She is the only suspect and is being sued for murder.The requirement is for life. Her lawyer Edward West sees it as a hopeless cause and gives the courage after the cross-examination of the witnesses on. her brother Jimmy shoots his sister to rescue and interrogates his sister to find out the truth. She admits having an affair with four wealthy men, Jimmy's to earn enough money to pay bills of the Faculty of law. Jimmy tries to save the fate of his sister by Edward to complain if the murderer. ==Cast[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == Bayard Veiller Director made the 1927 possible and also took the direction of the film in itself. It would be after the uitbrengst known as Norma Shearers first sound film. It was recorded in mono . In small places where the cinema not yet equipped with sound projectors were, it was released as a silent film. [1]
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<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Producer Paul Bern saw the play with Ann Harding in the title role and was of the opinion that it would be a good movie for Shearer. Shearer was impressed with the script and got the title role. The shots were disastrous. The filmmakers had no knowledge how sound films were to be included and names most scenes in this issue once. was used in the story of the film musical Singin' in the Rain (1952).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lady_1-1" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  Nevertheless, it became a huge success. It brought a ground-breaking amount of $ 400,000 on and Shearer was given the nickname "The First Lady of the Talkies" (the first wife of the sound film).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  the film was also promoted as "the world's greatest melodramatic triumph".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Not only the public was impressed with the film, also to speak the press was full of praise. The daily newspaper The New York Times wrote that the film makes a strong debut and Shearer knew to interest in the sound movie. The Outlook magazine called it "the best sound film so far".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  due to the success, there were also several film versions place in Europe, including the French Le Procès de Mary Dugan (1930), the GermanMordprozeß Mary Dugan (1931) and the Spanish El Proceso de Mary Dugan (1931). In 1941, a remake was released with Laraine Day in the title role.