Sweet Kitty Bellairs 1930 All Technicolor All Talking All Singing Pre-Code Vitaphone Operetta

Sweet Kitty Bellairs 1930 All Technicolor All Talking All Singing Pre-Code Vitaphone Operetta Sweet Kitty Bellairs is a 1930 American historical musical comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green. The film is based on the 1900 novel, The Bath Comedy by Agnes Castle and Egerton Castle. Shot entirely in Technicolor, the film stars Claudia Dell, Ernest Torrence and, Walter Pidgeon and is set in Bath, England in 1793. The novel was first adapted for the stage by David Belasco in 1903 and starred Henrietta Crosman.[3] A silent film adaptation starring Mae Murray followed in 1916. Cast: Claudia Dell as Kitty Bellairs Walter Pidgeon as Lord Varney Ernest Torrence as Sir Jasper Standish Perry Askam as Capt. O'Hara June Collyer as Lady Julia Standish Lionel Belmore as Col. Villiers Arthur Edmund Carewe as Capt. Spicer Flora Finch as Gossip Douglas Gerrard as Tom Stafford Christiane Yves as Lydia Al Hart as Innkeeper Bertram Jones as Verney's Valet Tina Marshall as Megrim Geoffrey McDonell as Lord Northmore Edgar Norton as Lord Markham The film contains several examples of Pre-Code humor. In one scene, an obviously gay hairdresser is talking to Kitty Bellairs about her love affairs. Kitty asks him which man she should choose and the hairdresser says she should choose the highwayman because he prefers "a manly man." In another scene, Kitty teaches her friend how to get her husband to pay attention to her. Her instructions include wearing Parisian negligee and finding another lover. Songs: "You, I Love But You" (Sung by Claudia Dell) "I've Been Waiting For You" (Sung by Walter Pidgeon) "Drunk Song" (Sung by Ernest Torrence, Lionel Belmore, Edgar Norton) "Duelling Song" (Sung by Ernest Torrence, Perry Askam, Lionel Belmore, Edgar Norton, Douglas Gerrard) "Peggy's Leg" (Sung by Ernest Torrence, Perry Askam, Lionel Belmore, Edgar Norton, Douglas Gerrard, Arthur Edmund Carewe) "Highwayman Song" (Sung by Perry Askam and Claudia Dell) "Pump Room Song" (Sung by Claudia Dell) "Song of the Town of Bath" (Sung by Extras) "Tally Ho" (Sung by Claudia Dell, Walter Pidgeon, Lionel Belmore)