Once in a Blue Moon (1935 film) explained

Once in a Blue Moon
Director:	Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur
Producer:	Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur
Starring:	Jimmy Savo Nikita Balieff Cecilia Loftus
Music:	George Antheil
Cinematography:	Lee Garmes
Studio:	Hecht-MacArthur Productions
Distributor:	Paramount Pictures
Runtime:	67 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

Once in a Blue Moon is a 1935 American drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and starring Jimmy Savo, Nikita Balieff and Cecilia Loftus.^[1] It was one of four films the writing-directing team produced at the Astoria Studios in New York.^[2] It was, along with Soak the Rich, a critical and commercial disaster.^[3]

Cast

• Jimmy Savo as Gabbo the Great
• Nikita Balieff as Gen. Onyegin
• Cecilia Loftus as Duchess
• Whitney Bourne as Nina
• Edwina Armstrong as Princess Hena
• Sándor Szabó as Ivan
• J. Charles Gilbert as Captain
• Hans Steinke as Count Bulba
• George Mitchell as Kolla
• Jackie Boren as The General
• Michael Dalmatoff as Nikita
• George Beranger as Kolia

Bibliography

• Barton, Ruth. Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
• Gorbach, Julien. The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist. Purdue University Press, 2019.
• Koszarski, Richard. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press, 2008.

Notes and References

1. Barton p.118
2. Gorbach p.102
3. Koszarski p.284