Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sally (1929) is the third all talking all-color feature movie ever made (the first was On with the Show 1929). It was photographed in the Technicolor process. Sally was also the sixth feature movie to contain color that had been released by Warner Brothers, the first five were The Desert Song (1929), On with the Show (1929), Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Paris (1929), and The Show of Shows (1929). (Song of the West was actually completed by June of 1929 but had its release delayed until March of 1930). Although exhibited in a few select theatres in December of 1929, Sally only went into general release on January 12, 1930.It was based on the Broadway stage hit, Sally, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld (which played at The New Amsterdam Theatre, from 12/21/1920 to 4/22/1922), and retains three of the stage production's Jerome Kern songs ("Look for the Silver Lining", "Sally", and "Wild Rose"), the rest of the music newly written for the film by Al Dubin and Joe Burke. Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by the Warner Brothers at an extravagant sum (reportedly $1000 an hour for a total of $100,000) to star in the filmed version. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Jack Okey in 1930.. }
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- Sally_(1929_film) abstract "Sally (1929) is the third all talking all-color feature movie ever made (the first was On with the Show 1929). It was photographed in the Technicolor process. Sally was also the sixth feature movie to contain color that had been released by Warner Brothers, the first five were The Desert Song (1929), On with the Show (1929), Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Paris (1929), and The Show of Shows (1929). (Song of the West was actually completed by June of 1929 but had its release delayed until March of 1930). Although exhibited in a few select theatres in December of 1929, Sally only went into general release on January 12, 1930.It was based on the Broadway stage hit, Sally, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld (which played at The New Amsterdam Theatre, from 12/21/1920 to 4/22/1922), and retains three of the stage production's Jerome Kern songs ("Look for the Silver Lining", "Sally", and "Wild Rose"), the rest of the music newly written for the film by Al Dubin and Joe Burke. Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by the Warner Brothers at an extravagant sum (reportedly $1000 an hour for a total of $100,000) to star in the filmed version. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Jack Okey in 1930.".