''A Sailor's Sweetheart'' is a 1927 Warner Bros. synchronized sound film comedy directed by

Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director. As a director, he made films in numerous genres, including westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, and c ...

. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the

Vitaphone Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National Pictures, First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone is the last major analog sound-on-disc sys ...

sound-on-disc process. It stars Louise Fazenda and Clyde Cook. An incomplete print exists in England at the British Film Institute (BFI)/National Film and Television Archive, London.The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:''A Sailor's Sweetheart''
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Cast

* Louise Fazenda as Cynthia Botts * Clyde Cook as Sandy MacTavish * Myrna Loy as Claudette Ralston * William Demarest as Detective * John Miljan as Mark Krisel * Dorothea Wolbert as Lena Svenson *

Tom Ricketts Thomas B. Ricketts (15 January 1853 – 19 January 1939) was an English-born American stage actor, stage and motion picture, film actor and film director, director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the fi ...

as Professor Meekham

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* 1927 films 1927 comedy films American silent feature films Films directed by Lloyd Bacon Warner Bros. films American black-and-white films Silent American comedy films 1920s American films Synchronized sound films {{1920s-silent-comedy-film-stub

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