Oh, Kay! (film)

Oh, Kay is a 1928 silent film produced by John McCormick and distributed by First National Pictures. McCormicks wife Colleen Moore starred with Mervyn LeRoy directed. It is based on the musical Oh, Kay. This film is lost.

Based on the 1926 Broadway musical of the same name several of Colleens most successful films were based on musical comedies, the story is about the rum running Duke of Durham, forced into his occupation by circumstances beyond his control, and his sister, Lady Kay. They and their assistantsShorty and Larryhave stashed their load of bootlegged hooch in the basement of the home of Jimmy Winters, a local playboy. Originally part of the rum running operation, the part of Lady Kay was altered to better suit Colleens screen persona.Colleen had been set to begin work on When Irish Eyes are Smiling in 1927 when she and her husband John McCormick, split from their studio, possibly over a dispute over McCormicks drinking. The planned director, comedy constructor and friend of ColleensMervyn LeRoywalked in on a telephone call between John and the Studio as he was quitting, the first sign that the production was in trouble. Colleen followed her husbands departure from First National, and as a result When Irish Eyes are Smiling was shelved it would be dusted off and made by Colleen as Smiling Irish Eyes, one of her last films, a talkie. Plans for Mervyn LeRoy to direct Colleen were scuttled with her departure. Before her departure from the studio Colleen called Richard Rowland and asked that LeRoy be allowed to direct another film. Richard assured her he would. It was not until Oh Kay came along that Colleen had the opportunity to be directed by her friend LeRoy. In her book Silent Star, Colleen wrote that while in the vicinity of Catalina Island for shooting scenes of Oh Kay, she had gone to a movie on the island and seen a handsome actor she recommended to her husband to play the lead in Lilac Time. The actor was Gary Cooper. The play would later be revived. ........

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