Manhattan Cocktail (film)

Manhattan Cocktail
theatrical poster
Directed by	Dorothy Arzner
Written by	Ethel Doherty (script) George Marion Jr. (titles) Ernest Vajda (story)
Starring	Nancy Carroll Richard Arlen Lilyan Tashman Paul Lukas
Studio	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	24 November 1928
Running time	72 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English

Manhattan Cocktail (1928) was a part-talkie film, directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, and Lilyan Tashman. At the time this movie was made Hollywood was already making the transition of silent to sound either making all talking movies, part talking movies, or silent movies with their own soundtrack and sound effects.

Film Preservation

Manhattan Cocktail is a lost film, except for a one-minute montage sequence "Skyline Dance" by Slavko Vorkapich which was released in October 2005 on the DVD Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894-1941.

Songs

• "Gotta Be Good" by Victor Schertzinger
• "Another Kiss" by Victor Schertzinger

Cast Notes

Arlen became a big star with the Paramount film Wings (1927) and Carroll was becoming famous with the coming of sound movies. However, both Carroll and Arlen's careers would fade by the early 1930s.

See also

• Silent movie
• List of lost films
• Sound movie
• Vitaphone
• Sound-on-disc
• Black and White
• The Jazz Singer

External links

• Manhattan Cocktail at IMDB