Children of the Ritz

Children of the Ritz
Children of the Ritz
	Lobby card
Directed by	John Francis Dillon
Cinematography	James Van Trees
Edited by	Leroy Stone
Production; company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Release date	March 3, 1929;
Running time	7 reels (approximately 70 minutes)
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Synchronized); English Intertitles

Children of the Ritz is a 1929 sound drama film from First National Pictures. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film stars Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. The plot is based on a Cornell Woolrich story.

Plot

A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur. Their situations are changed when her family loses all their money and he wins $50,000 at a racetrack. They get married, but it's not long before she starts spending their money the way she used to spend hers.

Cast

Dorothy Mackaill - Angela Pennington
Jack Mulhall - Dewey Haines
James Ford - Gil Pennington
Richard Carlyle - Mr. Pennington
Evelyn Hall - Mrs. Pennington
Kathryn McGuire - Lyle Pennington
Frank Hall Crane - Butler (*Frank Crayne)
Edmund Burns - Jerry Wilder (*Eddie Burns)
Doris Dawson - Margie Haines
Aggie Herring - Mrs. Haines
Lee Moran - Gaffney

Music

The film featured a theme song entitled "Some Sweet Day" which was composed by Nat Shilkret and Lew Pollack.

Preservation status

Two reels of the film survive at the Eye Filmmuseum archive with an estimated running time of sixteen minutes.

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