Ramona (1928 film)

Ramona
Film poster
Directed byEdwin Carewe
Written byFinis Fox
Based onRamona
1884 novel
by Helen Hunt Jackson
StarringDolores del Río
Warner Baxter
CinematographyRobert Kurrle
Edited byJeanne Spencer
Music by"Ramona" by Mabel Wayne and L. Wolfe Gilbert
Production
company
Inspiration Pictures
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release dates
[1]
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSound (Synchronized)
(English intertitles)
Box office$1.5 million[2]

Ramona is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Edwin Carewe,[3] based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona, and starring Dolores del Río and Warner Baxter. While the film has no audible dialogue, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. This was the first United Artists film to be released with a recorded soundtrack. The novel had been previously filmed by D. W. Griffith in 1910 with Mary Pickford, remade in 1916 with Adda Gleason, and again in 1936 with Loretta Young.

  1. ^ "Ramona". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
  2. ^ Bradley, Edwin M. (2004). The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932. ISBN 0-7864-2029-4. "Ramona" plugged a middling romantic drama starring Delores Del Rio, who sang the delicate title theme, and helped it to a gross of more than $1.5 million.
  3. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Ramona". Silent Era. Retrieved June 2, 2008.