By Violet LeVoit
So Long Letty
Brief Synopsis
An eccentric wife lets a more conventional type take her place to meet the in-laws.
Cast & Crew
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Lloyd Bacon
Director
Charlotte Greenwood
Letty Robbins
Claude Gillingwater
Claude Davis
Grant Withers
Harry Miller
Patsy Ruth Miller
Grace Miller
Bert Roach
Tommy Robbins
Film Details
Genre
Comedy
Adaptation
Musical
Release Date
Oct
16,
1929
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Warner Brothers Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play So Long Letty by Elmer Harris, Earl Carroll, Oliver Morosco (New York, 23 Oct 1916).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 4m
Sound
Vitaphone
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
5,865ft
(6 reels)
Synopsis
Uncle Claude, an eccentric millionaire, brings his flapper granddaughters, Ruth and Sally, to a fashionable beach hotel, where he is accosted by Letty Robbins, a beauty parlor solicitor. Infuriated by her tactics, he calls upon the "personality man," Harry Miller, a would-be singer who charms the girls; Claude rushes into the adjoining suite to find Clarence De Brie, a composer, who tries to induce him to produce his new opera; and back in his own suite, he encounters Joe Casey, who wants to give him swimming lessons; thus he resolves to escape to the beauty salon. Later, Letty and Tom decide to swap partners with their neighbors Harry and Grace; complications ensue when Claude, who is Harry's uncle, arrives with his granddaughters; and when they are all booked in a raid on their "wild party," the judge straightens out matters.
Director
Lloyd Bacon
Director
Cast
Charlotte Greenwood
Letty Robbins
Claude Gillingwater
Claude Davis
Grant Withers
Harry Miller
Patsy Ruth Miller
Grace Miller
Bert Roach
Tommy Robbins
Marion Byron
Ruth Davis
Helen Foster
Sally Davis
Hallam Cooley
Clarence De Brie
Harry Gribbon
Joe Casey
Lloyd Ingraham
Judge
Jack Grey
Police sergeant
Crew
Film Details
Genre
Comedy
Adaptation
Musical
Release Date
Oct
16,
1929
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Warner Brothers Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play So Long Letty by Elmer Harris, Earl Carroll, Oliver Morosco (New York, 23 Oct 1916).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 4m
Sound
Vitaphone
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
5,865ft
(6 reels)
Articles
So Long, Letty -
It wasn't just that Charlotte Greenwood was tall--after all, Ingrid Bergman and Lauren Bacall were also around 5'9"--but those actresses had a knack for occupying their bodies with restrained grace. Greenwood, on the other hand, no matter how lovely her gowns or coiffed her blonde hair, swung her long limbs around the screen like a spider monkey in an evening gown. It was that big, irrepressible, slightly unnerving wildness that made her a perfect fit for this, the first sound adaptation of a 1916 musical about two women who swap their dissatisfied husbands in order to prove how they married right the first time. Unlike the silent version (made in 1920 and starring Colleen Moore), this time moviegoers enjoyed Greenwood's warbling of new Grant Clarke/Harry Akst songs like "My Strongest Weakness Is You".
By Violet LeVoit
By Violet LeVoit
So Long, Letty -
It wasn't just that Charlotte Greenwood was tall--after all, Ingrid Bergman and Lauren Bacall were also around 5'9"--but those actresses had a knack for occupying their bodies with restrained grace. Greenwood, on the other hand, no matter how lovely her gowns or coiffed her blonde hair, swung her long limbs around the screen like a spider monkey in an evening gown. It was that big, irrepressible, slightly unnerving wildness that made her a perfect fit for this, the first sound adaptation of a 1916 musical about two women who swap their dissatisfied husbands in order to prove how they married right the first time. Unlike the silent version (made in 1920 and starring Colleen Moore), this time moviegoers enjoyed Greenwood's warbling of new Grant Clarke/Harry Akst songs like "My Strongest Weakness Is You".
By Violet LeVoit
