Once in a Blue Moon (1935 film)

Once in a Blue Moon
Directed by	Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur
Written by	Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur
Produced by	Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur
Starring	Jimmy Savo Nikita Balieff Cecilia Loftus
Cinematography	Lee Garmes
Music by	George Antheil
Production company	Hecht-MacArthur Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	May 10, 1935 (1935-05-10)
Running time	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. It was one of four films the writing-directing team produced at the Astoria Studios in New York. It was, along with Soak the Rich, a critical and commercial disaster.

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.

External links

• Once in a Blue Moon at IMDb