A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Movie

Documentary

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.

Date: 10/24/1940

Rating: 6.7

Cast: Douglas Shearer, Greer Garson, Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Spencer Tracy, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Douglas McPhail, Wallace Beery, Robert Donat, Nelson Eddy, Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, Jeanette MacDonald, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Robert Montgomery, Eleanor Powell, William Powell, Mickey Rooney, Rosalind Russell, W.S. Van Dyke, Frank Whitbeck

Douglas Shearer