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.
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
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
Director
Delta Rhythm Boys perform "Snoqualomie Jo Jo".
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Musical short starring Spade Cooley.
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).
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Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang perform "Shame on You".
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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.
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Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".
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Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader.
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Kay Starr singing "Stop That Dancin' Up There".
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June Richmond sing "Hey Lawdy Mama".
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A Soundie with Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals.
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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.
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A burlesque presentation in an antique environment with Faith Bacon in black veils.
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Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots.
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Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."
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Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.
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Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.
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Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".
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Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.
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Burlesque presentation of "fan dance" by the original performer Faith Bacon.
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The Arthur Johnston Singers singing "The Singing Hills".
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.
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Whitey's Lindy Hoppers at their best along with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing for this "Hot Chocolate" musical short.
Director
Martha Tilton sings in this Soundies film from 1941, with Slate Brothers, and Ben Pollack and His Orchestra accompanying.
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Martha Tilton & Ben Pollack's Orchestra
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.
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.
Director
Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger, and the Giacomo Puccini opera. The young, tubercular seamstress, Mimi, falls in love with the impoverished playwright, Rodolfo, but poverty takes its toll on their relationship. When Mimi meets a wealthy suitor, Viscount Paul, to ask him for financial help, Rodolfo dumps her.
Adaptation
Dr. Pretorius, a deranged scientist, forces Henry Frankenstein to help him create a companion for the monster.
Story
Gypsies sing and dance around the fire while their children dream.
Director
Gypsies sing and dance around the fire while their children dream.
Writer
Weaves a Gothic spell with its account of love and death on an isolated farm, including a startling passage of sunstruck eroticism.
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Weaves a Gothic spell with its account of love and death on an isolated farm, including a startling passage of sunstruck eroticism.
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Soundie with a circus setting featuring the David Rose Orchestra.
