Jazz Singer Extras Disc 3: Vitaphone Shorts
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- StarsElsie JanisWilliam KernellElsie Janis entertains the troops from the back of a truck. She calls a French soldier up to sing with her, then dances to an American song while everyone sings, and finally shares the stage with an English soldier.
- StarsBernardo De PaceBernardo De Pace, known as "The Wizard of the Mandolin," plays several tunes, including "Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna" and "That's Why I Love You."
- StarsGus VanJoe SchenckGus Van and Joe Schenck sing a few songs with piano accompaniment.
- StarsBlossom SeeleyBenny FieldsCharles BourneThe curtain opens; behind it are two pianos where Charles Bourne and Phil Ellis, billed as the Music Boxes, are seated playing. After a few bars, Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields enter - she's in tulle, he's in sport coat, worsted trousers, vest, and tie carrying a cane and straw hat. They do three numbers, "Hello Mr. Bluebird," Irving Berlin's "The Call of the South," and "(A Pretty Spanish Town) On a Night Like This." Between the first two numbers, they kibbutz about southern music, and for the third song, she dons a sombrero and a serape and he sports a guitar and a gaucho hat. There's also a bit of dancing during the third number.
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsWilliam DemarestJoyzelle JoynerDottie LewisA police raid on a night club results in the entire cast of the club's floor show being hauled into court, where they must perform their routines for the judge.
- StarsThe Police QuartetteAt the police station, four Hollywood cops sing "Skinna-Ma Rink-A-Dink," "Mother Goose Medley," "Cluckin'" and "Waddle."
- StarsRay MayerEdith EvansComic cowboy piano player Ray Mayer and blonde singer Edith Evans perform "Henry's Made a Lady out of Lizzie," "It All Belongs to Me," "Sleep, Little One, Sleep" and "Side by Side."
- StarsAdele RowlandMildred BrownVeteran Broadway performer Adele Rowland sings four songs in this Vitaphone short.
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsThe IngenuesGenevieve BrownRuth CarnahanAn all-female orchestra plays popular songs of the day.
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsThe Foy FamilyEddie Foy Jr.Charley FoyThe Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.
- StarsDick RichCheri RichLarry RichDick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs, a popular West Coast group, perform "Ramona," "There Must Be a Silver Lining" and "Sunshine."
- StarsGus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove AmbassadorsGus ArnheimRuss ColumboPianist Gus Arnheim leads his orchestra in several popular tunes.
- DirectorLarry CeballosStarsLyda RobertiBailey and BarnumThe Larry Ceballos GirlsA musical Vitaphone short by Larry Ceballos. The songs include "Over the Garden Wall", It Was the Dawn of Love", and Baily and Barnum singing "Pretty Little Bom Bom Maid From Bombay".
- DirectorMurray RothStarsTrixie FriganzaA vaudeville act. Trixie Friganza performs first a story and then a song. For the story, she wears a wide-brimmed had and a matching diaphanous shawl. She tells of a visit to a friend who has a five-year old son. The mother tells Trixie a tale of stepping out on her husband, and to conceal the story from the boy, spells out key words. By the story's end, mom is in for a surprise and Trixie has a moral for us. Then, the hat and shawl come off, a base fiddle comes out, and Trixie sings us a comic song about her first two husbands.
- StarsCharles Green's FaydettsNina GreyBobbie GriceA straight vaudeville performance of an all-girl ensemble. The leader, Bobbie Grice, is dressed in something like a lord Fauntleroy outfit, and the orchestra members wear matching dresses, decorated with an appliqué in the shape of a musical instrument. Hot tunes are tempered with a tribute to operetta composer Victor Herbert, who had died in 1924.
- StarsSol ViolinskyPopular composer-vaudeville star Sol Violinsky plays a piano and violin simultaneously.
- StarsEthel SinclairMargaret La MarrTwo women on a beach vacation, one a wisecracker and the other "the straight woman," hilariously comment on anything and everything going on around them.
- StarsPaul TremaineThe popular jazz band in performance. The numbers presented include "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "On the Road to Mandalay," "Chinese Dream," "Fanfare" and "Here Comes the Showboat."
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsRose MarieRose Marie, aged five or six, sings three numbers in the Vitaphone sound stage decorated as an elegant drawing room. "Heigh Ho, Everybody, Heigh Ho," "Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You," and "Don't Be Like That." She sings the first in a polka-dot sailor suit and the other two numbers in a frilly white dress. She's animated throughout, acting as well as singing. She scats in both "Heigh Ho" and "Don't Be Like That." At the end, she curtsies twice.
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsJoe FriscoBob CallahanBilly GilbertTwo desperate singers take a job as the singing act in a movie theater between shows. They soon regret their decision.
- DirectorMurray RothStarsGeorge BurnsGracie AllenAfter briefly struggling to find the audience behind the camera, George and Gracie bring their vaudeville act to the big screen. Throughout their exchange, Gracie's goal is to convince George that she's smart, not dizzy.