New Year's Eve is a lost 1929 synchronized sound film drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring Mary Astor
and Charles Morton. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Movietone process. Veteran Henry Lehrman, who had worked with Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin, was the director. Samuel L. Rothafel wrote the music for film. As was the case for the majority of films during the early sound era, a silent version was prepared for theatres who had not yet converted to sound. Max Gold was an assistant director.
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Plot
Saddled with the care of a younger brother and unable to find work, Marjorie Ware puts aside her scruples and goes to see a gambler who has long cast a lustful eye on her. A pickpocket kills the gambler, and the police find Marjorie at the scene of the crime, charging her with the murder. The pickpocket later falls to his death, however, and evidence is uncovered that sets Mary free, cleared of all suspicion of guilt in the gambler's death. Mary is then reunited with Edward Warren, a man who once did her a great kindness.
Cast
Mary Astor – Marjorie Ware
Charles Morton – Edward Warren
Earle Fox – Barry Harmon
Florence Lake – Pearl
Arthur Stone – Steve
Helen Ware – Landlady
Freddie Burke Frederick – Little Brother
Jane La Verne – Little Girl
Sumner Getchell – Edward's friend
Stuart Erwin – Landlady's son
Virginia Vance – Little Girl's Mother