Show Folks

Show Folks is a 1928 American part-talkie sound drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, and Carole Lombard.^[1] Although the film featured a few sequences with audible dialogue, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was released in both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film format.

Show Folks
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Directed by	Paul L. Stein
Written by	John W. Krafft Jack Jungmeyer George Dromgold
Produced by	Ralph Block
Starring	Eddie Quillan Lina Basquette Carole Lombard
Cinematography	David Abel J. Peverell Marley
Edited by	Doane Harrison
Music by	Josiah Zuro
Production company	Pathé Exchange
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	October 21, 1928 (1928-10-21)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Part-Talkie) (English Intertitles)

Plot

Cast

• Eddie Quillan as Eddie Kehoe
• Lina Basquette as Rita Carey
• Carole Lombard as Cleo
• Robert Armstrong as Owens, the Promoter
• Crauford Kent as McNary, a Vaudeville Producer
• Bessie Barriscale as Kitty Mayo
• Richard Tucker as Vaudeville Performer
• Maurice Black as Vaudeville Performer
• Joan Bennett as Night Club Patron

Music

The film featured a theme song entitled "No One But Me (Only Me)" which was composed by Billy Stone, Al Koppell and Charles Weinberg. Also featured on the soundtrack was a song entitled "My Heart Keeps On Speaking Of Love" composed by Gus Kahn and Joe Cooper. An additional song heard on the soundtrack was entitled "Love's First Kiss" by Lew Porter and Sam A. Perry.

Preservation

This film survives at the French archive Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in Fort de Bois-d'Arcy, Library of Congress, and UCLA Film and Television Archive.^[2][3]

See also

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)