Once in a Blue Moon (1935 film)

1935 film

Once in a Blue Moon

Directed by	Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur
Written by	Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur
Produced by	Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur
Starring	Jimmy Savo Nikita Balieff Cecilia Loftus
Cinematography	Lee Garmes
Music by	George Antheil
Production company	Hecht-MacArthur Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	May 10, 1935 (1935-05-10)
Running time	67 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Once in a Blue Moon is a 1935 American drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and starring Jimmy Savo, Nikita Balieff and Cecilia Loftus. It was one of four films the writing-directing team produced at the Astoria Studios in New York. It was, along with Soak the Rich, a critical and commercial disaster.

Plot

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Cast

Jimmy Savo as Gabbo the Great
Nikita Balieff as Gen. Onyegin
Cecilia Loftus as Duchess
Whitney Bourne as Nina
Edwina Armstrong as Princess Hena
Sándor Szabó as Ivan
J. Charles Gilbert as Captain
Hans Steinke as Count Bulba
George Mitchell as Kolla
Jackie Boren as The General
Michael Dalmatoff as Nikita
George Beranger as Kolia

References

Barton p.118
Gorbach p.102
Koszarski p.284

Bibliography

Barton, Ruth. Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
Gorbach, Julien. The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist. Purdue University Press, 2019.
Koszarski, Richard. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press, 2008.

External links

Once in a Blue Moon at IMDb

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Films written and directed	Crime Without Passion (1934) Once in a Blue Moon (1935) The Scoundrel (1935) Soak the Rich (1936) Angels Over Broadway (1940) Specter of the Rose (1946) Actor's and Sin (1952)
Films written only	Underworld (1927) The Great Gabbo (1929) The Unholy Night (1929) Roadhouse Nights (1930) The Unholy Garden (1931) Scarface (1932) Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933) Topaze (1933) Turn Back the Clock (1933) Design for Living (1933) Viva Villa! (1934) Shoot the Works (1934) Twentieth Century (1934) The Florentine Dagger (1935) Barbary Coast (1935) Nothing Sacred (1937) The Goldwyn Follies (1938) Gunga Din (1939) Wuthering Heights (1939) Let Freedom Ring (1939) It's a Wonderful World (1939) Lady of the Tropics (1939) His Girl Friday (1940) Comrade X (1940) Lydia (1941) China Girl (1942) Roxie Hart (1942) Spellbound (1945) The Black Swan (1945) Notorious (1946) Her Husband's Affairs (1947) Kiss of Death (1947) Ride the Pink Horse (1947) The Miracle of the Bells (1948) Perfect Strangers (1950) Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) Whirlpool (1950) Monkey Business (1952) Living It Up (1954) Ulysses (1954) The Indian Fighter (1955) Miracle in the Rain (1956) The Iron Petticoat (1956) A Farewell to Arms (1957) Legend of the Lost (1957) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1957) The Sun Also Rises (1957) Queen of Outer Space (1958) Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) Circus World (1964) 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
Plays written	The Front Page (1928) Twentieth Century (1932) Jumbo (1935) Ladies and Gentlemen (1939) A Flag Is Born (1946)
Related	Rose Caylor (wife) Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City Gaily, Gaily (1969 film)

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