Chloe, Love Is Calling You

Chloe, Love Is Calling You
Chloe, Love Is Calling You
Directed by	Marshall Neilan
Written by	Marshall Neilan (story and screenplay)
Produced by	J. D. Trop (producer)
Cinematography	Mack Stengler
Edited by	Joseph Josephson; Helene Turner
Music by	George Henninger
Production; company	Pinnacle Productions
Release date	April 1, 1934;
Running time	62 minutes; 54 minutes (Home video release)
Country	United States
Language	English

Chloe, Love Is Calling You is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Marshall Neilan. The film is also known as Chloe (American short title). This was lead actress Olive Borden's last film.

Plot summary

A low-budget Southern drama about a light skinned woman who was raised in the swamps who wishes to avenge her black father's lynching. She falls in love with Wade Carson, a white man who works for Col. Gordon, who orchestrated the lynching. Later she discovers that Col. Gordon is actually her father.

Cast

Olive Borden as Chloe (Betty Ann Gordon)
Reed Howes as Wade Carson
Molly O'Day as Joyce, the Colonel's niece
Philip Ober as Jim Strong
Georgette Harvey as Old Mandy
Francis Joyner as Col. Gordon
J. Augustus Smith as Mose, a Thieving Worker
Jess Cavin as Hill, a Thieving Worker
Richard Huey as Ben, the Servant

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Chloe, Love Is Calling You was subject to review by city and state film censorship boards. The Ohio board banned the film.^[1]

Soundtrack

"Chloe" (Music by Neil Moret, lyrics by Gus Kahn)

References

^ Scott, Ellen C. (2015). Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era. Rutgers University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8135-7136-2.

External links

Chloe, Love Is Calling You at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Chloe, Love Is Calling You is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chloe, Love Is Calling You at IMDb

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[1] Scott, Ellen C. (2015). Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era. Rutgers University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8135-7136-2.

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