The Awakening
movie
Released November 17, 1928
Overview
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.
Cast
Vilma Banky
as
Marie Ducrot
Walter Byron
as
Count Karl von Hagen
Louis Wolheim
as
Le Bete
George Davis
as
The Orderly
William Orlamond
as
Grandfather Ducrot
Carl von Haartman
as
Lt. Franz Geyer
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Rex the Dog
as
Dog (uncredited)
Yola d'Avril
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David Findlay
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Arno Frey
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Owen Gorin
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George Jackson
Crew
Victor Fleming
as
Director
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H.H. Caldwell
as
Writer
Katherine Hilliker
as
Writer
Carey Wilson
as
Writer
Frances Marion
as
Story
Samuel Goldwyn
as
Producer
Hugo Riesenfeld
as
Music
William Cameron Menzies
as
Art Direction
Viola Lawrence
as
Editor
Henry Hathaway
as
Assistant Director
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George Barnes
as
Director of Photography