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Lady of the Pavements (UK title: Lady of the Night) is a 1929 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lupe Vélez, William Boyd, and Jetta Goudal. Griffith reshot the film to include a couple of musical numbers, making it a part-talkie.[1]

Lady of the Pavements
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	D. W. Griffith
Written by	Sam Taylor Karl Vollmoller
Produced by	Joseph M. Schenck
Starring	Lupe Vélez William Boyd Jetta Goudal
Cinematography	Karl Struss
Edited by	James Smith
Music by	Irving Berlin
Production company	Art Cinema Corporation
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	January 22, 1929 (1929-01-22)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

Disgusted that his fiancée, Diane (Jetta Goudal) has been cheating on him, Karl (William Boyd) says he'd rather marry a "street walker" than her. To get back at him, Diane arranges for Nanoni ("Little One") (Lupe Vélez), a singer at a sleazy bar, to pretend to be a Spanish girl, from a convent, to fool him.[2]

Cast

• Lupe Vélez as Nanon del Rayon
• William Boyd as Count Karl Von Arnim
• Jetta Goudal as Countess Diane des Granges
• Albert Conti as Baron Finot
• George Fawcett as Baron Haussmann
• Henry Armetta as Papa Pierre
• William Bakewell as A Pianist
• Franklin Pangborn as M'sieu Dubrey, Dance Master

Preservation

The Vitaphone sound-on-disc system was employed for sound sequences. Discs 6 and 8 are in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Other sound discs to this film were donated by Arthur Lennig to the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York.

References

External links

• Lady of the Pavements at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Lady of the Pavements poster
• Stills at moviessilently.com
• Still at silentfilm.org
• Lady of the Pavements on YouTube

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