About the film
Pointed Heels is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film from Paramount Pictures that was directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring William Powell, Helen Kane, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, and Fay Wray.
The film was originally filmed with color sequences by Technicolor. One of these color sequences was the "Pointed Heels" ballet with Albertina Rasch and her Dancers. The UCLA Film & Television Archive has a complete copy of this film, including the color sequences. Turner Classic Movies airs the black-and-white television copy of this film. A print screened at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2009 contained the color ballet sequence. The film entered the public domain on January 1, 2025.
From the Wikipedia article “Pointed Heels”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
