The Kentucky Derby

Donald Gordon

Alice Brown

Col. Moncrief Gordon

Ralph Gordon

Col. Rome Woolrich

Joe

Rance Newcombe

Topper Tom

Bob Thurston

Capt. Wolff

Jensen

Mrs. Clancy (as Anna Hernandez)

Timmy Clancy

Little Girl (uncredited)

A Jewel Production. Universal, unlike many of its competitors, never owned a proprietary theater chain. This business decision would eventually pay off handsomely for the studio after the 1949 Supreme Court anti-trust decision that threaten to cripple its peers. However, it required the studio to carefully market its feature product to independent owners. Carl Laemmle devised a 3-tiered brand system: Red Feather (low-budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige productions). Jewel releases were produced in hopes of drawing higher roadshow ticket prices, a ploy that sometimes misfired. This branding system would fade away in late 1929.