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."
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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."
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Music by Harry M. Woods
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
Sung by Edith Evans with Ray Mayer on piano
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Vitaphone production reel #2236. See more »Soundtracks
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Music by Harry M. Woods
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
Sung by Edith Evans with Ray Mayer on piano
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August 1928 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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I saw this as a DVD extra to the 2007 DVD release of "The Jazz Singer" (Disc 3)
This is one of the better Vitaphone shorts, in no small part due to the comfortable on-camera demeanor of the performers, especially Ray Mayer. The songs are corny, but they seem to know that and acknowledge that to us in future with a wink and a nudge.
Edith Evan's singing is just fine, but Mayer's accompanying piano work and spoken introductions are a subtle parody act in itself. (Watch the gum.) This is a vaudeville act captured on film and I presume a successful one, but I wonder how they ever played this to the back row of a live theater setting. Somehow they must have done it.