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Always Faithful (1929)

Always Faithful poster
Directed by
Alfred A. Cohn
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
11 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent film star makes her first appearance in a sound picture. She performs in a short dramatic piece for the Vitaphone Corporation.

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What happens

Always Faithful (also known as Blanche Sweet in Always Faithful) is a 1929 American Pre-Code short film produced by The Vitaphone Corporation in conjunction with Warner Bros., which distributed the film. The film marks the sound film debut of veteran film actress Blanche Sweet who began her screen career in 1909 as a teenager working for D. W. Griffith. It is preserved at the Library of Congress who recently restored it for showing at the National Gallery of Art. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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