| The Shopworn Angel | |
| Director: | Richard Wallace |
| Screenplay: | Howard Estabrook Albert S. LeVino Tom Miranda (intertitles) |
| Starring: | Nancy Carroll Gary Cooper |
| Music: | Ben Bergunker Andrea Setaro |
| Cinematography: | Charles Lang |
| Editing: | Robert Gessler |
| Studio: | Paramount Pictures |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Runtime: | 80 minutes 7,377 feet (Sound Version) 7,112 feet (Silent Version)[1] |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
The Shopworn Angel is a 1928 American part-talking sound romantic drama film directed by Richard Wallace starring Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper.[2] The film was released by Paramount Pictures using the Western Electric sound-on-film system.[1] Like the majority of films in the early sound era, a silent version was made for theatres who hadn't converted to sound yet by trimming down the portions of the film that featured talking or singing.
The film featured a theme song entitled "A Precious Little Thing Called Love" that was by Lou Davis and J. Fred Coots.
This film was nearing completion when The Jazz Singer (1927) was released. Dialogue was written for Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll to compete with "talking pictures". The last scene was a wedding and the only lines of dialogue spoken in the film are Cooper's "I do" and Carroll's "I do". In addition, Carroll is also heard singing the theme song.
This film survives in an incomplete form at the Library of Congress.