"Follow Thru" (27September1930) A Paramount Technicolor Photoplay

☆"Follow Thru" is a 1930 American pre-Code musical romantic comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor Process 3. It was the second all-color, all-talking feature to be produced by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on the hit 1929 Broadway musical of the same name by Lew Brown, B. G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson & Laurence Schwab. The musical ran a total of 401 performances from January 9, 1929, to December 21, 1929. Jack Haley & Zelma O'Neal, who starred in the Broadway production, reprised their roles in the film version.
•PLOT:
Club champion Lora Moore loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend Jack Martin show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile, Lora's friend Angie Howard chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
•STARRING:
Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Jerry Downes
Nancy Carroll as Lora Moore
Zelma O'Neal as Angie Howard
Jack Haley as Jack Martin
Eugene Pallette as J.C. Effingham
Thelma Todd as Mrs Van Horn
Claude King as Mac Moore
Kathryn Givney as Mrs Bascomb
Margaret Lee as Babs Bascomb
Don Tomkins as Dinty Moore
Albert Gran as Martin Bascomb
•SONGS:
"A Peach of a Pair" by George Marion Jr. (lyrics), Richard A. Whiting (music)
"It Must Be You" by Elwood Eliscu and Manning Sherwin (lyrics and music)
"Then I'll Have Time for You," "I Want to be Bad" and "Button Up Your Overcoat" by Lew Brown and B. G. DeSylva (lyrics), Ray Henderson (music)
•PRODUCTION:
The film was shot in Los Angeles and Palm Springs. The extras who appear in golf course scenes had to be coached with regard to golf etiquette (when to applaud a strike, etc.). About two hundred extras were used for the climactic golf championship sequence.