Sally (1925 film)

Sally is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green, produced by Moore's husband John McCormick, and based on the musical Sally written by Guy Bolton and Clifford Grey that was adapted to film by June Mathis.[1] The play was a Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. production written specifically for Marilyn Miller that opened on December 21, 1920, at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway. It ran for 570 performances.[2]

For the 1929 technicolor film, see Sally (1929 film).

Sally
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Directed byAlfred E. Green
Produced byJohn McCormick
Written byJune Mathis
Based onSally
by Guy Bolton and Clifford Grey
StarringColleen Moore
Lloyd Hughes
Leon Errol
Music byHarry Tierney
Joseph McCarthy
CinematographyTed D. McCord
Edited byGeorge McGuire
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • March 29, 1925 (1925-03-29)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Cast

Production

This was the second of five films, in three years, with Moore and Hughes starring in the lead roles. They also appeared together in The Huntress (1923), The Desert Flower (1925), Irene (1926), and Ella Cinders (1926).[3]

During the production of this film, Moore met a young gag man who worked for Alfred Green who billed himself as a “comedy constructor,” named Mervyn LeRoy. They would become good friends and LeRoy would eventually direct Moore in her 1928 film Oh, Kay!

Preservation

As of a January 2017 update, the combined Library of Congress and International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) American Silent Feature Film Survival Database reports Sally as a lost film,[4] despite speculation in 2014 that a short sequence of color film, from the nine-reel movie, might have been discovered in "a previously unknown cache of over a dozen 45 - 75 second 35mm Technicolor nitrate spools with previously lost color scenes" from four early films.[5]

References
  1. Progressive Silent Film List: Sally (1925) at silentera.com
  2. Cantu, Maya (December 28, 2012). "Musical of the Month: Sally". New York Public Library. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  3. "All Visual Works with both Colleen Moore and Lloyd Hughes". IMDb. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  4. "Sally / Alfred E Green [motion picture]". Library of Congress FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. January 5, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2020. Status: Lost
  5. vitaphone (April 26, 2014). "Early WB Technicolor Vitaphone Nitrate Found!". NitrateVille.com. Retrieved May 6, 2014.

Sources
  • Jeff Codori (2012), Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star, McFarland Publishing, (Print ISBN 978-0-7864-4969-9, EBook ISBN 978-0-7864-8899-5).
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