Powder My Back

1928 film by Roy Del Ruth

  • March 10, 1928 (1928-03-10)
Running time
7 reelsCountryUSLanguagesSound (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)

Powder My Back is a 1928 synchronized sound film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Irene Rich. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Bros.[1][2]

Plot

The actress of the comedy "powder My back", Fritzi Foy, was angry with Rex Hale, the mayor who closes the comedy. With the help of Fritzi's press agent, Claude, she succeeds to enter the mayor's home by performing a fake accident and tells him that she need to leave until her fully recovered. This action infuriated Hale, however, his son Jack falls in love with Fritzi. When Fritzi figures out that her action has brought misfortune to Jack, she persuade him to go back to his fiancé, Ruth Stevens.[3]

Cast

  • Irene Rich as Fritzi Foy
  • Audrey Ferris as Ruth Stevens
  • George Beranger as Claude
  • Anders Randolf as Rex Hale
  • Carroll Nye as Jack Hale

Preservation status

This is now a lost film.[4][5]

See also

  • List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References

  1. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Powder My Back
  2. ^ Powder My Back at silentera.com
  3. ^ Powder My Back, retrieved August 20, 2018
  4. ^ Powder My Back at Lost Film Files:Warner Brothers lost films - 1928
  5. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Powder My Back

External links

  • Powder My Back at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • synopsis at AllMovie
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