Alexander Gray Vivienne Segal Walter Pidgeon Jean Hersholt Louise Fazenda
Cinematography
James Van Trees
Edited by
Hal McLaren
Music by
Oscar Hammerstein II Sigmund Romberg Bela Lugosi
Production company
Warner Bros.
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release date
November 26, 1930 (1930-11-26)
Running time
95 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$604,000[1]
Box office
$950,000[1]
Viennese Nights is a 1930 American all-talking pre-Code musical operetta film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Alexander Gray, Vivienne Segal, Walter Pidgeon, Jean Hersholt, Bela Lugosi and Louise Fazenda. It was photographed entirely in Technicolor and released by Warner Brothers. Viennese Nights was the first original operetta written especially for the screen by Oscar Hammerstein II and Sigmund Romberg. It was filmed in March and April 1930, before anyone realized the extent of the economic hardships that would arrive with the Great Depression, which had begun in the autumn of the previous year. Although not a box office hit in the United States, the film had long box office runs in Britain and Australia. It is one of the earliest sound films to have a short pre-credit sequence.[2]
^ abWarner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 11 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Viennese Nights
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