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Applause is a 1929 American backstage musical talkie directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Helen Morgan, Jack Cameron, and Joan Peers. It was shot at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Astoria, New York during the early years of sound films.
Applause: Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. With Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron. A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Rouben Mamoulian
- 1930-01-04
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- 79 min
'Applause', starring a young Helen Morgan made up to look like a washed up burlesque star, is about a singer, Kitty Darling, who has a lowlife husband and a daughter hidden away in a convent. Things change when the money runs out and the daughter is recalled from her safe and cosy world.
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- Paramount Pictures
- Rouben Mamoulian
Applause (1929) In this early landmark backstage musical drama (tragedy) with innovative sound techniques and a constantly-moving camera, from director Rouben Mamoulian (his first film and first feature-length sound film) - the talkie film's main theme was to provide a realistic and cynical look at seamy backstage life:
Dead of alcoholism at 41, Morgan lived a consistently tumultuous life, and you can readily see the actress drawing on that to inform her worn-out shell of a former celebrity turned brittle and weary from a life of hard living and no dignity.
Synopsis. Kitty Darling (Morgan), a vaudeville headliner, has sent her daughter, April (Peers), to a convent school. When April reaches seventeen, Morgan's boyfriend, Hitch Nelson (Mellish, Jr.), demands that she come live with them so that Kitty will have more money to spend on him.
