| Hardboiled Rose | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | F. Harmon Weight |
| Written by | Darryl F. Zanuck (story) Robert Lord (screenplay) |
| Starring | Myrna Loy William Collier Jr. John Miljan |
| Cinematography | William Rees |
| Editing by | William Holmes |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | March 30, 1929 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hardboiled Rose (1929) is a 62-minute part-talkie released by Warner Brothers and starring Myrna Loy, William Collier Jr., and John Miljan.
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A Southern belle (Loy) must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who takes her away from it all.
This was Loy's second starring role in a movie, after Turn Back the Hours (1928). Hardboiled Rose would become Myrna Loy's last part-talkie. After this movie Myrna Loy would make all-talking movies, with some filmed in Technicolor. Loy's early talkies in Technicolor were The Desert Song (1929, Warner Brothers' first movie released in color), The Show of Shows (1929), and Under a Texas Moon (1930, the second all color-all talking movie to be filmed outdoors).
In 1933, Loy's Warners contract ended and she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1934, Myrna Loy made two movies with MGM that would make her a big star for the next 20 years, Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man.
According to T.V. Guide.com's review of Hardboiled Rose, the talking sequences were added to the movie later in production. All studios were converting to sound, so major studio releases had to be at least a part-talkie.
The film elements for Hardboiled Rose still survive, but the soundtrack which was recorded on Vitaphone discs, is lost except the fourth reel disc.[1]