Leathernecking

Leathernecking
Film poster
Directed byEdward F. Cline
Fred Fleck (assistant)
Written byAlfred Jackson
Jane Murfin
Based onPresent Arms
by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields
Produced byWilliam Le Baron
Louis Sarecky (assoc.)
StarringIrene Dunne
Eddie Foy Jr.
CinematographyJ. Roy Hunt
Edited byGeorge Marsh
Music byVictor Baravalle
Oscar Levant
Sidney Clare
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Productions
Release dates
  • September 12, 1930 (1930-09-12) (Premiere-New York City)[1]
  • September 22, 1930 (1930-09-22) (US)[2]
Running time
79 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Leathernecking is a 1930 American musical comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline, from a screenplay by Alfred Jackson and Jane Murfin, adapted from the Broadway musical comedy Present Arms, by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields.

Although based on a musical, it used only two of the original Rodgers and Hart songs from the Broadway hit, along with original songs, including three by Oscar Levant and Sidney Clare. An early part-color feature film with a Technicolor insert, this film was Irene Dunne's film debut.

  1. ^ "Leathernecking". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on August 27, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  2. ^ "Leathernecking: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 17, 2014. Retrieved December 5, 2016.