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Director:
Ray Enright
Writers:
Otto A. Harbach (operetta) &
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Release Date:
14 June 1930 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Musical more
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Cast

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Walter Woolf King ... Tom Allen (as Walter Woolf)
Vivienne Segal ... Dawn
Noah Beery ... Shep Keyes
Alice Gentle ... Mooda, Dawn's Mother
Dick Henderson ... Duke
Lupino Lane ... Mr. Pigeon
Marion Byron ... Joanna
Edward Martindel ... Colonel Judson
Nina Quartero ... Dawn's Maid-in-Waiting
Sôjin ... Piper (as Sojin)
Otto Matieson ... Captain Eric of German East African Forces
Julanne Johnston ... Sister Hedwig
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Circus Princess (Australia)
Die Zirkusprinzessin (Austria) (Switzerland: Swiss German title) [de]
Aurora dorada (Spain) [es]
Lefki thea (Greece) [el]
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Runtime:
83 min | USA:81 min (Turner Library print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Two-strip Technicolor) (original print)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Vitaphone (Western Electric Apparatus)
Certification:
USA:Passed
Company:
Vitaphone Corporation, The more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The operetta opened in New York on 30 November 1927 and had 184 performances. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: Composer Herbert Stothart is billed as "Hubert" in the opening credits. more
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10 out of 13 people found the following review useful.
Too Bad Mystery Science Theater 3000 Is No Longer Around..., 13 June 2000
Author: marcslope

...What a grand time they would have sending up this putrid songfest, based on a stage musical that wasn't very successful to begin with. One of the last of the first wave of movie musicals, and surely one of the worst: a preposterous operetta about a light-skinned African princess and the white soldier who loves her. (It turns out she's white, too, so it's okey-doke. I'm not spoiling anything.) Howlingly racist even for its day, what with the united forces of the noble Old World benevolently keeping the peace among the "heathens" of Boer-controlled Africa. (Can this be the same Oscar Hammerstein who wrote "Show Boat" more or less concurrently?) Ineptly shot, paced, and acted, with a number of white actors in blackface, including an unforgivable Noah Beery, his dusky makeup slowly melting under the hot lights.

All that said, it's a rare chance to see the great stage star Vivienne Segal in a lead, and the famous British comic Lupino Lane do a fun eccentric dance. The Kalman score is quite pretty, too, if you can tune out the lyrics. But unless you're a connoisseur of operetta or a lover of grotesquely bad movies, the whole thing is just about unwatchable.

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