Follow Thru
About Follow Thru
In 1910, golf pro Mac Moore orders champagne for a new baby, then switches to beer when the child is a girl. Twenty years later his daughter Lora loses the Mission Country Club title to Ruth Van Horn and thinks of quitting. Golf pro Jerry Downes and his pupil, shy millionaire Jack Martin, arrive. Lora stays in order to be near Jerry, and her friend Angie goes after Jack, helped by a love perfume and a ring she will not give back. Jerry coaches Lora, stands in as her caddie, and she wins the return match. The two couples plan a double wedding.
Cast & crew
More about Follow Thru
Laurence Schwab and Lloyd Corrigan directed and wrote the screenplay. Schwab and Frank Mandel produced for Paramount Publix. From the 1929 Broadway musical by Lew Brown, B. G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson, and Schwab, which ran 401 performances from January 9 to December 21, 1929. New York opening September 12, 1930. General release September 27, 1930. Copyright September 26, 1930, LP1593.
Themes
Making
Schwab moved his own hit from the stage, keeping much of the score and several of the stage players, and shot the whole feature in two-color Technicolor.
Look
Henry Gerrard and Charles P. Boyle photographed it entirely in two-color Technicolor.
Technique
The original camera negative survives complete. UCLA restored it with Universal Pictures, with funding from the AFI/NEA program, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Mary Pickford Foundation.
Music
The songs are by DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson, carried over from the 1929 show, among them "Button Up Your Overcoat."
Preservation
The camera negative is intact and was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. For years the film had been treated as lost until a print surfaced in the 1990s.
Notes
- Charles "Buddy" Rogers plays Jerry, Nancy Carroll is Lora, Zelma O'Neal is Angie, Jack Haley is Jack Martin. Eugene Pallette and Thelma Todd are also billed.
- It was Paramount's second all-color, all-talking feature.
- About two hundred extras were used for the championship match.
- The score includes "Button Up Your Overcoat" and "A Peach of a Pair.
Scenes
- Mac Moore changes the champagne order to beer when the baby is a girl.
- Jerry takes the caddie's place and Lora wins the rematch.
Influenced by
- Follow Thru (1929 Broadway musical)
