Sally of the Scandals
{{short description|1928 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{infobox film
| name = Sally of the Scandals
| image = Sally of the Scandals lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = Lynn Shores
Ken Marr (ass't director)
| producer = Film Booking Offices of America
| writer = Enid Hibbard (story, scenario)
John W. Conway (intertitles)
Randolph Bartlett (intertitles)
| starring = Bessie Love
| music =
| cinematography = Philip Tannura
| editing = Archie Marshek
| distributor = Film Booking Offices of America
| released = {{film date|1928|07|15|U.S.}}
| runtime = 7 reels; 6,059 feet
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
Sally of the Scandals is a 1928 American silent crime drama{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v108733|title=Sally of the Scandals (1928)|website=AllMovie}} film produced and released by Film Booking Offices of America. It was directed by Lynn Shores and starred Bessie Love.{{cite book|title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1921–1930|editor-last=Munden|editor-first=Kenneth W.|publisher=R.R. Bowker Company|location=New York|date=1971|oclc=664500075|pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanfilminst00amer/page/677 677]–8|url=https://archive.org/details/americanfilminst00amer|url-access=registration}}
The film is preserved in the Archives françaises du film du CNC (Bois d'Arcy).{{cite web|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.84/default.html|title=Sally of the Scandals / Lynn Shores [motion picture]|accessdate=November 9, 2014|website= Library of Congress – Performing Arts Encyclopedia}}
Plot
Chorus girl Sally Rand (Love) cares for her crippled sister Mary (Lambert). She agrees to marry gangster Bill Reilly (Miley)—whom she believes to be a legitimate businessman—after he promises to pay for an operation for her sister. The lead in the show, Marian Duval (Quimby), is jealous of the attention that Steve Sinclair (Forrest), wealthy backer of the Broadway show, is showing Sally, and she wrongfully accuses Sally of theft. Steve learns of Marian's and Reilly's lies, and prevents Sally from marrying Reilly. He then makes her the star of the show.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/1929motionpictur14moti|title=Motion Picture News Booking Guide|page=[https://archive.org/details/1929motionpictur14moti/page/147 147]|publisher=Motion Picture News|year=1929}}{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald91unse/page/n301|magazine=Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World|page=44|date=April 28, 1928|title=New Pictures}}
Cast
- Bessie Love as Sally Rand
- Irene Lambert as Mary Rand
- Allan Forrest as Steve Sinclair
- Margaret Quimby as Marian Duval
- Jimmy Phillips as Kelly
- Jack Raymond as Bennie
- Jerry Miley as Bill Reilly{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/photoplayvolume33435chic/page/n279|magazine=Photoplay Magazine|page=137|date=August 1928|volume=34|issue=3|title=Casts of Current Photoplays}}
Production
Some interior scenes were filmed using the sets and chorus of the stage production of Sunny at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles.{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/motionnew37moti/page/n453|magazine=Motion Picture News|title=Studio Briefs|page=442|date=February 11, 1928}}
Reception
The film received positive reviews,{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald93unse/page/n1113|title=What the Picture Did for Me|date=December 22, 1928|magazine=Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World|page=51}} as did Bessie Love's performance.{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/photoplayvolume33435chic/page/n297|title=Brief Reviews of Current Pictures|magazine=Photoplay|page=16}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{IMDb title|0019349}}
- {{AFI film|11858}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20181119081158/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b765b3c87 Sally of the Scandals] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
- {{Tcmdb title|499649}}
Category:1928 crime drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:English-language crime drama films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Film Booking Offices of America films
Category:Films about musical theatre
Category:Films directed by Lynn Shores
Category:Surviving American silent films
Category:Silent American crime drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
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