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Words and Music is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by James Tinling and starring Lois Moran, Helen Twelvetrees and Frank Albertson. It was written by Andrew Bennison, with the story by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Jack Edwards.
Released by Fox Film Corporation, the film is notable as the first in which John Wayne is credited as "Duke Morrison". Wayne was also credited as "Duke Morrison" as a property assistant in the Art Department. Ward Bond, Wayne's lifelong good friend, also had a bit part in the movie. Words and Music, which was also released as a silent film, is now considered lost.




Plot


Two young college students, Phil and Pete, compete for the love of a pretty girl named Mary, and also to win the $1500 prize in a song-writing contest to write the best show tune for the annual college revue. The two men each ask Mary to sing for them, but eventually, she chooses Phil as her beau, and it is he who also has the winning song.




Cast


Lois Moran as Mary Brown
David Percy as Phil
Helen Twelvetrees as Dorothy Blake
William Orlamond as Pop Evans
Elizabeth Patterson as Dean Crockett
John Wayne (credited as Duke Morrison) as Pete Donahue
Frank Albertson as Skeet Mulroy
Tom Patricola as Hannibal




Production


Although the film was largely devoid of much of a plot line, as was typical of musical revue pictures of the period, there is a great deal of singing and dancing. Many of Lois Moran's numbers were footage that was cut from the film, Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, to make that film shorter. This film was created to make use of the deleted scenes, so it was fashioned around Moran's singing talent. Songs include, "Too Wonderful for Words" (William Kernell, Dave Stamper, Paul Gerard Smith, Edmund Joseph), "Stepping Along" (Kernell), "Shadows" (Con Conrad, Sidney D. Mitchell, Archie Gottler).




See also


John Wayne filmography
List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)




References






External links


Words and Music at IMDb
Words and Music at AllMovie
Words and Music at the TCM Movie Database
Words and Music at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Words and Music details, tvguide.com
Film review, The New York Times

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