- Country: USA
- Genres: Documentary, Short
- Release: 1940-10-24
- Director: Douglas Shearer
- Writers: N/A
- Language: English
- Stars: Clark Gable , Hedy Lamarr , Spencer Tracy
- Runtime: 11 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: El milagro del sonido (Venezuela) , A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (United States of America) , The Miracle of Sound (United States of America) , The Miracle of Sound
- Plot: MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer takes us for a behind the scenes look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. Uses Bitter Sweet (1940) (a Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy picture) and Comrade X (1940) to illustrate the techniques. Parts of this short are in Technicolor, including a stunning screen test of Greer Garson for Blossoms in the Dust (1941). The conclusion is a montage of trailers for coming MGM pictures featuring almost the entire MGM constellation of stars.
- IMDB:tt0032798
The Miracle of Sound Cast · · · ALL
Douglas Shearer
Self
Greer Garson
(1904–1996)
Self
Clark Gable
(I)
(1901–1960)
Self
Hedy Lamarr
Self
Spencer Tracy
Self
Norma Shearer
Self
Robert Taylor
Self
Conrad Veidt
Self
Alla Nazimova
Self
Ann Sothern
Self
Ruth Hussey
Self
Walter Pidgeon
(1897–1984)
Self
Robert Young
Self
Lew Ayres
(1908–1996)
Self
Lionel Barrymore
(1878–1954)
Self
Laraine Day
Self
Judy Garland
Self
Lana Turner
Self
Joan Crawford
(I)
(1905–1977)
Self
Cary Grant
Self
Katharine Hepburn
Self
James Stewart
(I)
(1908–1997)
Self
George Murphy
Self
Charles Winninger
Self
Douglas McPhail
Self