Josef Berne

Películas

Catskill Honeymoon
Director
A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' fiftieth wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show replete with singers, dancers, comedians, and impressionists.
Down Missouri Way
Producer
Musical - Romance and music accompany this comedy about a film director searching for a mule to star in his new movie. - Martha O'Driscoll, John Carradine, Eddie Dean
Down Missouri Way
Director
Musical - Romance and music accompany this comedy about a film director searching for a mule to star in his new movie. - Martha O'Driscoll, John Carradine, Eddie Dean
Snoqualomie Jo Jo
Director
Delta Rhythm Boys perform "Snoqualomie Jo Jo".
My Chickashay Gal
Director
Musical short starring Spade Cooley.
Dance, Baby, Dance (Tantze Babele)
Director
Mel Tormé and the Mel-Tones sing the title song in this 1945 Soundie (a short film produced to be played on jukebox-like Panoram machines).
Shame on You
Director
Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang perform "Shame on You".
They Live in Fear
Director
After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp "Dachau" German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student endangers Paul's new American existence and his family's which stayed in Germany.
Take Me Back to Tulsa
Director
Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".
Wave-a-Stick Blues
Director
Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader.
Stop That Dancin' Up There
Director
Kay Starr singing "Stop That Dancin' Up There".
Hey Lawdy Mama
Director
June Richmond sing "Hey Lawdy Mama".
Boxcar Rhapsody
Director
A Soundie with Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals.
Heavenly Music
Director
Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.
Dance of Shame
Director
A burlesque presentation in an antique environment with Faith Bacon in black veils.
From the Indies to the Andes (in His Undies)
Director
Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots.
Turkey in the Straw
Director
Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."
Beautiful Clothes
Director
Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.
Shine
Director
Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.
Cow-Cow Boogie
Director
Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".
Jam Session
Director
Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.
A Lady with Fans
Director
Burlesque presentation of "fan dance" by the original performer Faith Bacon.
The Singing Hills
Director
The Arthur Johnston Singers singing "The Singing Hills".
Dear Arabella
Director
Coin operated jukeboxes during WWII were able to play video as well as the audio and this here is one example of that. Ray Noble and His Orchestra get the top billing here but we've also got Snooky Lanson and a couple other performers chipping in to sing the title song.
Hot Chocolate
Director
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers at their best along with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing for this "Hot Chocolate" musical short.
A Little Jive Is Good for You
Director
Martha Tilton sings in this Soundies film from 1941, with Slate Brothers, and Ben Pollack and His Orchestra accompanying.
Loch Lomond
Director
Martha Tilton & Ben Pollack's Orchestra
Mirele Efros
Director
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland.
Mirele Efros
Writer
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland.
La vida bohemia
Director
Mimí, una joven costurera tuberculosa, se enamora del pobre dramaturgo Rodolfo, pero la pobreza termina afectando a su relación. Cuando Mimí queda con un acaudalado pretendiente, el vizconde Paul, para pedirle dinero, Rodolfo la abandona.
La novia de Frankenstein
Adaptation
Después de la huida del monstruo creado por el doctor Frankenstein, el siniestro Dr. Praetorius propone al científico la creación de una compañera para el monstruo.
Gypsy Night
Story
Gypsies sing and dance around the fire while their children dream.
Gypsy Night
Director
Gypsies sing and dance around the fire while their children dream.
Dawn to Dawn
Writer
Weaves a Gothic spell with its account of love and death on an isolated farm, including a startling passage of sunstruck eroticism.
Dawn to Dawn
Director
Weaves a Gothic spell with its account of love and death on an isolated farm, including a startling passage of sunstruck eroticism.
My Gal Salome
Director
Soundie with a circus setting featuring the David Rose Orchestra.