Lucky Star (film)

Infobox Film
name = Lucky Star


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director = Frank Borzage
producer = William Fox
writer = John Hunter Booth
H.H. Caldwell
Katherine Hilliker
Sonya Levien
Tristram Tupper
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starring = Janet Gaynor
Charles Farrell
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cinematography = Chester A. Lyons
William Cooper Smith
editing = H.H. Caldwell
Katherine Hilliker
distributor = Fox Film Corporation
released = August 18 1929
runtime = 90 mins
country = USA
language = English
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amg_id = 1:100661
imdb_id = 0020122

"Lucky Star" (1929) is a romantic drama film starring Janet Gaynor and directed by Frank Borzage. The plot involves the impact of World War I upon a farm girl (Gaynor) and a returning soldier (Charles Farrell). The movie was produced by William Fox with cinematography by Chester A. Lyons and William Cooper Smith, and the supporting cast includes Paul Fix and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. In the previous two years, Borzage had also directed Gaynor in "Seventh Heaven" and "Street Angel", two of the three films (along with F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise") for which Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress.

Cast

* Janet Gaynor as Mary Tucker
* Charles Farrell as Timothy Osborn
* Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Martin Wrenn
* Paul Fix as Joe