Box Office Record - 6

The Motion Picture Almanac (1929)

An authoritative compilation of reports on picture values, written by theatre owners, and published weekly in the "What the Picture Did for Me" department of "Exhibitors Herald-World" (Dates are those on which the picture was played at the individual theatre.)

Take Me Home | Taxie 13 | Telling the World | Tempest | Tenderloin | The Terror | Terror Mountain | Three Week Ends | Tyrant of Red Gluch | Uncle Tom's Cabin | United States Smith | The Vanishing Pioneer | Varsity | Walking Back | Warming Up | Waterfront | The Water Hole | The Wedding March | West of Zanzibar | The Wheel of Chance | While the City Sleeps | White Shadows in the South Seas | The Wind | Win That Girl | Wings | A Woman of Affairs | Women They Talk About | The Wright Idea

Take Me Home

Paramount. Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, 6 reels.

Taxie 13

RKO. Chester Conklin, Martha Sleeper, Hugh Trevor, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Ethel Wales, Lee Moran, Jerry Miley, Charles Byer, 7 reels.

Telling the World

MGM. William Haines, Anita Page, Bert Roach, Eileen Percy, Frank Currier, Polly Moran, Matthew Betz, William V. Mong, 6 reels.

Tempest

United Artists. John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, 9 reels.

Tenderloin

Warner Bros. Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, 7 reels.

The Terror

Warner Bros. May McAvoy, Edward Everett Horton, Louise Fazenda, Alec B. Francis, Matthew Betz, 8 reels.

Terror Mountain

RKO. Tom Tyler, 5 reels.

Three Week Ends

Paramount. Clara Bow, Neil Hamilton. Harrison Ford, Lucille Powers, Julia Swayne Gordon, Jack Raymond, Edythe Chapman, Guy Oliver, William Holden, 6 reels.

Tyrant of Red Gluch

RKO. Tom Tyler, Frankie Darro, Josephine Bario, Harry Woods, Serge Temoff, Barney Fury, 6 reels.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Universal. Marguerita Fischer, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Lucien Littlefield, James Lowe, Virginia Grey, George Seigmann, Adolph Milar, Vivien Oakland, Lassie Lou Ahern, Mona Ray, Aileen Manning, 11 reels.

United States Smith

Gotham. Eddie Gribbon, Lila Lee, Kenneth Harlan, Earle Marsh, 7 reels.

The Vanishing Pioneer

Paramount. Jack Holt, Sally Blane, William Powell, Fred Kohler, Guy Oliver, Roscoe Karns, Tom Holt, Marcia Maroon, 6 reels.

Varsity

Paramount. Mary Brian, Charles (Buddy) Rogers, Chester Conklin, Phillips R. Holmes, Robert Ellis, John Westwood, Princeton University undergraduates, 8 reels.

Walking Back

Pathe. Sue Carol, 5 reels.

Warming Up

Paramount. Richard Dix, Jean Arthur, Claude King, Philo McCullough, Roscoe Karns, Wade Boteler, Billy Kent Schaefer, James Dugan, Mike Donlin, 7 reels.

Waterfront

First National. Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, James Bradbury, Jr., Knute Erickson, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Wiliam Norton Bailey, Pat Harmon, 7 reels.

The Water Hole

Paramount. Jack Holt, Nancy Carroll, John Boles, Ann Christy, Montague Shaw, Lydia Yeamens Titus, Jack Perrin, Jack Mower, Paul Ralli, Tex Young, Bob Miles, Greg Whitespear, 7 reels.

The Wedding March

Paramount. Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Matthew Betz, Dale Fuller, George Fawcett, Maude George, George Nichols, Hughie Mack, Cesare Gravina, 14 reels.

West of Zanzibar

MGM. Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Warner Baxter, Mary Nolan, Jane Daly, Roscoe Ward, Kalla Pasha, Curtis Nero, 7 reels.

The Wheel of Chance

First National. Richard Barthelmess, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, Warner Oland, Lina Basquette, Ann Schaeffer, Sidney Franklin, Martha Franklin. 7 reels.

While the City Sleeps

MGM. Lon Chaney, Anita Page, Carroll Nye, Wheeler Oakman, Mae Busch, Polly Moran, 9 reels.

White Shadows in the South Seas

MGM. Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, 9 reels.

The Wind

MGM. Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cummings, Edward Earle, William Orlamond, Laon Ramon, Carmencita Johnson, Billy Kent Schaefer, 8 reels.

Win That Girl

Fox. Sue Carol, David Rollins, Tom Elliott, Roscoe Karns, Olin Francis, Mack Fluker, Sidney Bracey, Janet McLeod, Maxine Shelly, Betty Recklaw, 6 reels.

Wings

Paramount. Clara Bow, Charles (Buddy) Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper, James Hall, 15 reels.

A Woman of Affairs

MGM. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Hobart Bosworth, Lewis Stone, Dorothy Sebastian, 8 reels.

Women They Talk About

Warner Bros. Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, Claude Gillingwater, Buster Collier, Jr., 6 reels.

The Wright Idea

First National. Johnny Hines, Louise Lorraine, Edmund Breese, Charles Giblyn, Fred Kelsey, Henry Hebert, Walter James, Betty Egan, Blanche Craig, 6 reels.

"Box Office Record," The Motion Picture Almanac, (Chicago: Quigley Publishing Company), 1929, pages 196-209.

© 1997, David Pierce, on editing and revisions (if any)


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