Jan Clayton is short of money for rent, so neighbor Ben Lessy organizes a rent party in this musical short directed by Charles Walter as he made the transition from choreographer to director.
It's a lively short with good music by Les Brown and orchestra, with a bunch of White people singing and doing recitative in jive talk. Cinematographer Jackson Rose handles the camera with a lot of movement that convinces me it was shot with a crab dolly.
Miss Clayton was one of the many pretty young ladies who sang and made a stab at Hollywood, and was successful, although she never made it to stardom: 11 movies, a few shorts, and finally a long run on the TV show LASSIE, in which she appeared on well over a hundred episodes.
It's a lively short with good music by Les Brown and orchestra, with a bunch of White people singing and doing recitative in jive talk. Cinematographer Jackson Rose handles the camera with a lot of movement that convinces me it was shot with a crab dolly.
Miss Clayton was one of the many pretty young ladies who sang and made a stab at Hollywood, and was successful, although she never made it to stardom: 11 movies, a few shorts, and finally a long run on the TV show LASSIE, in which she appeared on well over a hundred episodes.