Once in a Blue Moon (1935 film)

1935 film

Once in a Blue Moon is a 1935 American drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and starring Jimmy Savo, Nikita Balieff and Cecilia Loftus.^[1] It was one of four films the writing-directing team produced at the Astoria Studios in New York.^[2] It was, along with Soak the Rich, a critical and commercial disaster.^[3]

Plot

Cast

• Jimmy Savo as Gabbo the Great
• Nikita Balieff as Gen. Onyegin
• Cecilia Loftus as Duchess
• Whitney Bourne as Nina
• Edwina Armstrong as Princess Hena
• Sándor Szabó as Ivan
• J. Charles Gilbert as Captain
• Hans Steinke as Count Bulba
• George Mitchell as Kolla
• Jackie Boren as The General
• Michael Dalmatoff as Nikita
• George Beranger as Kolia

References

1. Barton p.118
2. Gorbach p.102
3. Koszarski p.284

Bibliography

• Barton, Ruth. Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
• Gorbach, Julien. The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist. Purdue University Press, 2019.
• Koszarski, Richard. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press, 2008.

External links

• Once in a Blue Moon at IMDb