Sally (1929 film)

Sally
theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Francis Dillon
Written by	Waldemar Young A.P. Younger
Based on	Sally 1920 musical by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse
Starring	Marilyn Miller Alexander Gray Joe E. Brown Pert Kelton
Cinematography	Dev Jennings Charles Edgar Schoenbaum (Technicolor)
Edited by	LeRoy Stone
Music by	Jerome Kern Leonid S. Leonardi Irving Berlin Al Dubin Joe Burke
Color process	Technicolor Two-Strip (original)
Production company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	December 23, 1929 (1929-12-23)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$647,000[1]
Box office	$2,198,000[1]

Sally is a 1929 American Pre-Code film. It is the fourth all-sound, all-color feature film made, and it was photographed in the Technicolor process. It was the sixth feature film to contain color that had been released by Warner Bros.; the first five were The Desert Song (1929), On with the Show! (1929), Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Paris (1929) and The Show of Shows (1929). (Song of the West was completed by June 1929, but had its release delayed until March 1930). Although exhibited in a few theaters in December 1929, Sally entered general release on January 12, 1930.

The film was based on the Broadway stage hit Sally, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld and retains three of the stage production's Jerome Kern songs ("Look for the Silver Lining", "Sally" and "Wild Rose"). The film's other music was written by Al Dubin and Joe Burke.^[2]

Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by Warner Bros. for an extravagant sum (reportedly $1,000 per hour for a total of $100,000) to star in the film.^[3]

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Jack Okey in 1930.^[4][5]