Golden Dawn is a 1930 American pre-Code musical operetta film released by Warner Bros., photographed entirely in Technicolor, and starring Vivienne Segal, Walter Woolf King and Noah Beery. The film is based on the semi-hit 1927 stage musical of the same name (music composed by Emmerich Kálmán and Herbert Stothart, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach.)
Beery was the accomplished older brother of actor Wallace Beery and comedian Lupino Lane was the uncle of actress/director Ida Lupino. Noah Beery was widely praised for his deep bass voice after he first sang in Song of the Flame. Beery in blackface singing to his whip (“Listen little whip / while you’re in my grip …”)— recorded the song "The Whip" for Brunswick Records and the recording was issued in their popular ten inch series on record number 4824.
Cast:
Walter Woolf King as Tom Allen
Vivienne Segal as Dawn
Noah Beery as Shep Keyes
Alice Gentle as Mooda
Dick Henderson as Duke
Lupino Lane as Mr Pigeon
Marion Byron as Joanna
Edward Martindel as Colonel Judson
Nina Quartero as Dawn's Maid-In-Waiting
Sōjin Kamiyama as Piper
Otto Matieson as Captain Eric
Julanne Johnston as Sister Hedwig
Songs:
"Africa Smiles No More" (Sung by Alice Gentle)
"The Whip" (Sung by Noah Beery twice)
"My Bwanna" (Sung by Vivienne Segal and chorus; Reprised by Vivienne Segal)
"We Two" (Sung by Marion Byron and Dick Henderson)
"Dawn" (Sung by Walter Woolf King; Reprised by a chorus during finale)
"Mooda's Song" (Sung by Alice Gentle)
"My Heart's Love Call" (Sung by Walter Woolf King)
"It's a Long Way to Tipperary" (Sung by the British exchange prisoners)
"In a Jungle Bungalow" (Sung by Lupino Lane and chorus; Danced to by Lupino Lane)
"A Tiger" (Sung and danced to by Marion Byron and Lee Moran; Reprised by Marion Byron)
"Mulungu Thabu" (Sung by chorus with spoken interjections by Nigel de Brulier)
"Dawn" (Reprised by chorus)