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Bright Lights (1930)
Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Written by	Henry McCarty based on the play by Humphrey Pearson
Starring	Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery and Frank McHugh.
Cinematography	Lee Garmes, Charles Edgar Schoenbaum (Technicolor)
Editing by	Harold Young
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	September 21, 1930
Running time	69 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

Bright Lights is a 1930 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was released late in 1930, but was quickly redrawn when Warner Bros. realized that the public had grown weary of musicals. The Warner Bros. believed that this attitude would only last for a few months, but, when the public proved obstinate, they reluctantly re-released the film early in 1931 after making a few cuts to the film.

[edit] Plot

A successful actress (Dorothy Mackaill) is about to marry a rich man instead of the man (Frank Fay, another actor who is a close friend of hers) she really loves.

[edit] Songs

• "Nobody Cares If I'm Blue",
• "I'm Crazy for Cannibal Love"
• "Song of the Congo"
• "You're an Eyeful of Heaven"

[edit] Preservation

Only a black and white copy of the cut print released in the United States in 1931 (with some of the musical numbers cut) seems to have survived. The complete film was released intact in countries outside the United States where a backlash against musicals never occurred. It is unknown whether a copy of this full version still exists.