Jack Scholl

Birth : 1903-03-19, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 1988-03-25

History

Jack Scholl was an American song lyricist, movie director, and screenplay writer.

Movies

Wink of an Eye
Original Music Composer
A chemist in a perfume factory (Jonathan Kidd) seems to have killed his wife, cut her up, and stuck her remains in the freezer.
Holiday Rhythm
Director
A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere. When he tells his fiancé that he may have to postpone their honeymoon, she goes off on him, and as he backs away from her he hits his head on a fire extinguisher and knocks himself out. While unconscious he dreams his own version of the show he's trying so hard to sell.
Musical Merry-Go-Round No. 5
Director
In this episode of the Musical Merry-Go-Round we get music from Frankie Carle and His Orchestra and Marjorie Hughes.
Let's Sing Grandfather's Favorites
Writer
A retrospective of popular music from the 1890s and the turn of the century, with words for the audience to join in.
Let's Sing Grandfather's Favorites
Director
A retrospective of popular music from the 1890s and the turn of the century, with words for the audience to join in.
Musical Merry-Go-Round No. 6
Director
In this musical short, Tex Beneke, Les Brown, and their Orchestras perform multiple numbers.
Musical Merry-Go-Round #4
Director
Virginia O'Brien visits Martin Block as he hosts a radio show devoted to Les Brown and His Band of Renown. A few numbers are heard from the band as Block gives a brief history of how they started. O'Brien also recalls her first movie song.
Let's Sing a Song from Movies
Director
This audience sing-along features tunes from four musicals with the lyrics appearing on screen. Numbers include "Am I Blue?" from 1929's On with the Show!.
Let's Sing a Song from Movies
Writer
This audience sing-along features tunes from four musicals with the lyrics appearing on screen. Numbers include "Am I Blue?" from 1929's On with the Show!.
Let's Sing a Stephen Foster Song
Director
A short in the Memories From Melody Lane series. This dramatization of Stephen Foster's life shows how the songwriter came to write four of his most popular tunes: "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Folks at Home", "Beautiful Dreamer", and " De Camptown Races". After each song is performed, the audience is invited to sing along with the Melody Makers as the lyrics are displayed on title cards.
Musical Merry-Go-Round #2
Director
Disc Jockey Martin Block talks with and plays music by Tex Beneke
Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight
Writer
In this short film, four popular songs, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "Moonlight Bay", "In the Evening By the Moonlight", and "Shine on Harvest Moon", about moonlight are presented.
Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight
Director
In this short film, four popular songs, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "Moonlight Bay", "In the Evening By the Moonlight", and "Shine on Harvest Moon", about moonlight are presented.
Let's Sing an Old Time Song
Writer
This short film focuses on four songs, "The Band Played On", "Daisy Bell" (a.k.a. "A Bicycle Built for Two"), "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine", and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze", that have become American standards.
Let's Sing an Old Time Song
Director
This short film focuses on four songs, "The Band Played On", "Daisy Bell" (a.k.a. "A Bicycle Built for Two"), "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine", and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze", that have become American standards.
Let's Sing a Song of the West
Writer
This musical short features four songs associated with the western United States.
Let's Sing a Song of the West
Director
This musical short features four songs associated with the western United States.
Hollywood Wonderland
Director
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra
Director
A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.
Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra
Director
After a career on the stage and in movies, Desi Arnaz is introduced in this short as an orchestra leader.
Jan Savitt and His Band
Director
This "Melody Masters" short traces Jan Savitt's career from first violinist in a symphony orchestra to leader of a top-rated jazz and recording outfit. It features the Jan Savitt Band and vocalists Shirley Van, Bob Arthur and Helen Warren. Savitt and band accompany while an acrobatic act known as the Lipham Children do their stuff, and some bathing Beauties show up in the beach scene. Songs include "Some Sunday Morning", "Too Marvelous for Words", Dearest Darling" and "I'll Always Love You."
Headline Bands
Director
This Melody Masters Bands musical short (production number 2605) is a mixture of cuts from earlier shorts featuring various bands, including footage taken from 1939's short "Vincent Lopez and his Band" that featured Betty Hutton as the band vocalist.
Frontier Days
Writer
U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.
Frontier Days
Director
U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.
Spade Cooley: King of Western Swing
Director
This short chronicles the rise in popularity of Spade Cooley and his unique blend of country and swing music.
Law of the Badlands
Writer
A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.
Law of the Badlands
Director
A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.
Music in Manhattan
Story
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
Trial by Trigger
Screenplay
California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.
11th. Naval District
Screenplay
A patriotic wartime short showcasing the U.S. Coast Guard Band, led by singer Rudy Vallee, and saluting the Naval branches of the military.
Casablanca
Songs
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Those Good Old Days
Writer
Young Gloria's father and mother go out for the evening to see a television broadcast. Gloria's grandfather entertains her with stories about his days in vaudeville.
Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
Lyricist
In this musical short, Cliff Edwards and his cowhands run a struggling dude ranch. When a pretty girl arrives, Cliff believes she is an heiress.
On Dress Parade
Additional Music
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Swingtime in the Movies
Lyricist
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
Confession
Songs
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Talent Scout
Lyricist
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Talent Scout
Additional Music
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Blazing Sixes
Lyricist
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
Blazing Sixes
Music
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
Smart Blonde
Music
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Give Me Liberty
Lyricist
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
Freshman Love
Songs
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Going Highbrow
Lyricist
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
Poor Cinderella
Lyricist
In the only Betty Boop color cartoon, Cinderella (Betty) goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother. Later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.
Poor Cinderella
Music
In the only Betty Boop color cartoon, Cinderella (Betty) goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother. Later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.