[MOVIE]
Sequenza dal lungometraggio / Sequence from the feature film “Mad About Money” / “Stardust” / “He Loved an Actress” [Regia : Melville Brown]; Scen.: John Meehan Jr., John E. Harding; F.: John Stumar, Jack Marta; Mu.: James Dyrenforth, Kenneth Leslie-Smith; Coreografia: Larry Ceballos; Int.: Ben Lyon (Roy Harley), Lupe Velez (Carla de Huelva), Harry Langdon (Otto), Wallace Ford (Peter Jackson), Jean Colin (Diana West); Prod.: William Rowland, per Morgan Productions; 35mm. D.: 7’ a 24/fs. Bn.
In November 1936 Lye found a job devising special effects and sequences for a low-budget musical known in production as Stardust. The American Melville Brown was the overall director; the plot concerned the romantic and financial problems of making a British film musical. Lye’s chief contribution was to direct and design the eccentrically charming musical number, “Let’s Go Dustin’ the Stars”. Imagine a Busby Berkeley song sequence directed by Georges Méliès. Once completed, the film sat on the shelf for a year before emerging in 1938 under two different names: Mad about Money in Britain, He Loved an Actress in America. It has scarcely been seen since.
Geoff Brown
