Don Juan (1926 film)

Don Juan
Don Juan
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alan Crosland
Written by	Walter Anthony (intertitles); Maude Fulton (intertitles); Victor Vance (art titles)
Screenplay by	Bess Meredyth
Based on	Don Juan; 1821 poem; by Lord Byron
Starring	John Barrymore
Cinematography	Byron Haskin
Edited by	Harold McCord
Music by	William Axt; David Mendoza; Major Bowes
Production; company	The Vitaphone Corporation
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	August 6, 1926;
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Synchronized); (English Intertitles)
Budget	$546,000
Box office	$1,693,000 (worldwide rental)

Don Juan is a 1926 synchronized sound American romantic adventure film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, though it has no spoken dialogue.^[4] The film is inspired by Lord Byron's 1821 epic poem of the same name. The screenplay was written by Bess Meredyth with intertitles by Maude Fulton and Walter Anthony.^[5]

Don Juan stars John Barrymore as the hand-kissing womanizer.^[5]

^ The Movie Musical; from Vitaphone to 42nd Street edited by Miles Kreuger c.1973 ISBN 0-486-23154-2
^ Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 5 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^ Glancy, H Mark (1995). "Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 15: 55–73. doi:10.1080/01439689500260031.
^ Stephens, E. J.; Wanamaker, Marc (2010). Early Warner Bros. Studios. Arcadia Publishing. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-738-58091-3.
^ ^a ^b White Munden, Kenneth, ed. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 195. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.