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1 3 form y separately published work icon Showgirl's Luck Talkie Mad Martin Keith , ( dir. Norman Dawn ) Australia : Australian Talkies , 1931 7750535 1931 single work film/TV

'As devised by Martin Keith, the scenario pictures the exploits of Dawn's company itself. Players arrive on location to make their first talkie, and the screen reveals both the comedy and the heart-break of it before the picture is in the cans. The idea sounds good. It departs from the back-stage business, yet allows specialty numbers to be dropped in as naturally as if a footlight story were being shot.'

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'Australia Makes a Talkie: First All-Dialogue and Music Film', The Register News-Pictorial, 31 May 1930, p.19.
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