The 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 - ...
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A happy and hilarious couple (also known as "The Beau Brummels") perform "While Strolling Through the Park" and "Don't Forget to Breathe or Else You'll Die."
A 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.
Director:
Bryan Foy
Stars:
William Demarest,
Joyzelle Joyner,
Dottie Lewis
Comic 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."
A 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".
Director:
Larry Ceballos
Stars:
Lyda Roberti,
Bailey and Barnum,
The Larry Ceballos Girls
Bernardo 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."
The 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.Written by
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Completed in May 1927 and copyrighted in July 1927, but apparently not widely released until a year later, as few theatres were equipped for sound in 1927. See more »
Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields with the Music Boxes (1929)
** (out of 4)
Hazel Green and Company (1928)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Early Vitaphone shorts, which each feature musical numbers. Like many of these early talkies the most important thing is that they're talking so not too much detail went into anything else. Out of this group I'd say Hazel Green and Company was the most entertaining since she had a pretty good band behind her and the songs were nice as well. The Wizard of the Mandolin should be avoided if you can't stand the mandolin.
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** (out of 4)
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** (out of 4)
Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields with the Music Boxes (1929)
** (out of 4)
Hazel Green and Company (1928)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Early Vitaphone shorts, which each feature musical numbers. Like many of these early talkies the most important thing is that they're talking so not too much detail went into anything else. Out of this group I'd say Hazel Green and Company was the most entertaining since she had a pretty good band behind her and the songs were nice as well. The Wizard of the Mandolin should be avoided if you can't stand the mandolin.