Bright Lights 1930 All Technicolor Pre-Code Vitaphone Musical Comedy

Bright Lights 1930 All Technicolor Pre-Code Vitaphone Musical Comedy Bright Lights is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. It premiered in Los Angeles in July 1930 but was edited and rereleased in early 1931. The film stars Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery and Frank McHugh. Cast: Dorothy Mackaill as Louanne Frank Fay as Wally Dean Noah Beery as Miguel Parada Daphne Pollard as Mame Avery James Murray as Connie Lamont Tom Dugan as Tom Avery Inez Courtney as Peggy North Frank McHugh as Fish, a reporter Edmund Breese as Harris Edward J. Nugent as "Windy" Jones Philip Strange as Fairchild Production The project was first announced in the October 23, 1929 issue of Variety, with Lloyd Bacon named as director and Loretta Young, Nora Lane, William Austin and Anthony Bushell in the cast, none of whom remained with the project. In November, Michael Curtiz was announced as the director. Principal photography was completed in early 1930. First National Pictures planned to release the film as a roadshow attraction, and it premiered on July 4, 1930 at the Warner Theatre in Los Angeles. Then film was withheld from general exhibition due to the backlash against musical and premiered again at New York's Warner Strand Theatre in February 1931. Songs "Nobody Cares If I'm Blue", sung by Frank Fay "I'm Crazy for Cannibal Love", sung by Dorothy Mackaill "Song of the Congo", sung by Mackaill "Come Along!", sung by Fay "All the Pretty Girls I Know", sung by Fay "Wall Street", sung by Fay "I'm Sittin' Pretty" "Every Little Girl He Sees", sung by Inez Courtney "I'm Just a Man About Town", sung by Mackaill "You're an Eyeful of Heaven"