''Lady of the Pavements'' (UK title: ''Lady of the Night'') is a 1929 American silent

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directed by

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and starring Lupe Vélez,

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, and Jetta Goudal. The screenplay was written by Sam Taylor, with contributions from an uncredited Gerrit Lloyd. Griffith reshot the film to include a few musical sequences, making it a part- talkie.

Plot

Disgusted that his fiancée, Diane ( Jetta Goudal) has been cheating on him, Karl (

) says he'd rather marry a "

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" than her. To get back at him, Diane arranges for Nanoni ("Little One") ( Lupe Vélez), a singer at a sleazy

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, to pretend to be a Spanish girl, from a convent, to fool him.Internet Movie Database
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Cast

* Lupe Vélez as Nanon del Rayon *

as Count Karl Von Arnim * Jetta Goudal as Countess Diane des Granges * Albert Conti as Baron Finot * George Fawcett as Baron Haussmann * Henry Armetta as Papa Pierre * William Bakewell as A Pianist * Franklin Pangborn as M'sieu Dubrey, Dance Master

Preservation

The Vitaphone sound-on-disc system was employed for sound sequences. Discs 6 and 8 are in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Other sound discs to this film were donated by Arthur Lennig to the

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in Rochester, New York.

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