Lady of the Pavements

Lady of the Pavements
Theatrical release poster
Directed byD. W. Griffith
Screenplay bySam Taylor
Based onLa Paiva
by Karl Vollmoller
Produced byJoseph M. Schenck
StarringLupe Vélez
William Boyd
Jetta Goudal
CinematographyKarl Struss
Edited byJames Smith
Music byIrving Berlin
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • January 22, 1929 (1929-01-22)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
(English Intertitles)

Lady of the Pavements (UK title: Lady of the Night) is a 1929 American sound part-talkie romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lupe Vélez, William Boyd, and Jetta Goudal. The screenplay was written by Sam Taylor, with contributions from an uncredited Gerrit Lloyd.[1] While the film has a few talking sequences, the majority of the film features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.[2]

  1. ^ Mayer, David (March 2009). Stagestruck Filmmaker: D. W. Griffith and the American Theatre. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-58729-840-0.
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Lady of the Pavements at silentera.com