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
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.