Bright Lights (1930)
With Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery, Sr., Frank McHugh, Inez Courtney, Edmund Breese, Edward Nugent, John Carradine
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Bright Lights, later retitled Adventures in Africa, is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Pictures. It premiered in Los Angeles in July 1930 but was edited and rereleased in early 1931. Although it was photographed entirely in Technicolor, the only surviving print is in black and white. The film stars Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery and Frank McHugh. It also features the screen debut of John Carradine, who appears in a small, uncredited role.
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