Golden Dawn (1930)
Directed by	Ray Enright
Written by	Walter Anthony based on the operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach.
Starring	Walter Woolf King Vivienne Segal Alice Gentle Noah Beery
Music by	Herbert Stothart Emmerich Kálmán Rex Dunn, Robert Stolz
Cinematography	Frank B. Good Devereaux Jennings (Technicolor)
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	June 14, 1930
Running time	83 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Golden Dawn (1930) is a musical operetta released by Warner Brothers and photographed entirely in Technicolor. The film is based on the semi-hit stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach.

Contents 1 Songs 2 Trivia 3 Preservation 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Songs

• "Africa Smiles No More" (Sung by Alice Gentle)
• "The Whip" (Sung by Noah Beery twice)
• "My Bwanna" (Sung by Vivienne Segal and chorus; Reprised by Vivienne Segal)
• "We Two" (Sung by Marion Byron and Dick Henderson)
• "Dawn" (Sung by Walter Woolf King; Reprised by a chorus during finale)
• "Mooda's Song" (Sung by Alice Gentle)
• "My Heart's Love Call" (Sung by Walter Woolf King)
• "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" (Sung by the British exchange prisoners)
• "In a Jungle Bungalow" (Sung by Lupino Lane and chorus; Danced to by Lupino Lane)
• "A Tiger" (Sung and danced to by Marion Byron and Lee Moran; Reprised by Marion Byron)
• "Mulungu Thabu" (Sung by chorus with spoken interjections by Nigel de Brulier)
• "Dawn" (Reprised by chorus)

[edit] Trivia

Noah Beery recorded "The Whip" for Brunswick Records along with a song from Song of the Flame (1930), another Warner Bros. musical he had recently appeared in.

Whenever the film is mentioned today in film reference books and TV/movie guides, it receives unanimously scathing reviews, most notably for its racism and its unintentionally funny performances. Beery not only plays his role in blackface, but also plays it with the type of Deep South accent one would find in characters such as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, despite the fact that he is supposed to be playing an African chieftain. Humorously snide comments of unintended double entendre have also been made over Beery's "The Whip".[1]

[edit] Preservation

The film survives only in a black-and-white copy made in the 1950s for television.

[edit] References

• Richard Barrios, A Song in the Dark (Oxford University Press, 1995)

[edit] External links

• Golden Dawn (1930) at the Internet Movie Database