Clyde Cook gets third billing in a prominent supporting role, with Sally O'Neill and Johnny Mack Brown in the leads. With Joe Cawthorn, Albert Conti, Henry Armetta, Kay Deslys and Blanch Federici in the cast, there's a lot more comedy than melodrama in this fairly fluid early talkie.
Clyde is exceptionally effective here, trying to help the young couple behind the shrewish eye of his wife (Federici). Memories of how beguiling Sally O'Neill was in Keaton's BATTLING BUTLER go out the window whenever she opens her mouth, but her voice does fit with the agreeable comedy business around her. This feels like the type of film William K. Everson would've shown at his New School screenings if 1929 RKO talkies had been accessible back in the day.
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JAZZ HEAVEN (1929) Clyde Cook
JAZZ HEAVEN (1929) Clyde Cook
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Re: JAZZ HEAVEN (1929) Clyde Cook
I always liked this one, it's pretty fluid for an early RKO-Radio Pictures talkie, and indeed, Clyde Cook has a great supporting role here. Look for Kay Deslys in an early scene as an angry tenant of the Apartment House complaining to Clyde about JOhnny Mack's all-night piano playing.
Thanks for posting it Ed, I guess it just went public domain this year.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
Thanks for posting it Ed, I guess it just went public domain this year.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
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