Lady of the Pavements

Lady of the Pavements is a 1929 American sound part-talkie romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lupe Vélez, William Boyd, and Jetta Goudal. The screenplay was written by Sam Taylor, with contributions from an uncredited Gerrit Lloyd. While the film has a few talking sequences, the majority of the film features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

Plot

Disgusted that his fiancée, Diane has been cheating on him, Karl says he'd rather marry a "street walker" than her. To get back at him, Diane arranges for Nanoni, a singer at a sleazy bar, to pretend to be a Spanish girl, from a convent, to fool him.

Music

The film featured a theme song entitled "Where Is The Song Of Songs For Me?" which was composed by Irving Berlin. Lupe recorded this song on Victor 21932.

Preservation

The film survives in a mute print that required the use of the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. Soundtrack discs for reels 6 and 8 survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Additional soundtrack discs to this film were donated by Arthur Lennig to the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York.