Author Archive: Retro

At summer camp, Breen befriends a famed composer who has writer’s block. He finds his muse in Bobby’s mom, a popular singer whose fiance refuses to let her return to the stage. Dir. Kurt Neumann

Joe Bagley, owner of the Blue Heaven Club, tries to foster a romance between shy pianist Sandy Elliott and band vocalist June Mayfield. Joe tells June that Sandy is really a professional, masked wrestler known as “The Devil.” Wally Porter, also in love with June doesn’t believe the story. The real wrestler breaks a leg in a match and Sandy, in order to keep up the ruse now has to wear a cast on his leg. June attends a match and hears the real Devil announce his engagement to another girl.

The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly acquired wealth to go on a spending spree, with the hope of getting back at an old girlfriend who dumped him for another man. However, complications arise when it is discovered the money is counterfeit.

Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical of New York’s early days, with smash hit “September Song.”

Astaire and Meredith are hilarious as a rival pair of partying trumpet players who are both after the same woman and the same job: a gig with Artie Shaw. Dir. H.C. Potter

Nightclub singer Joan (Joan Edwards) joins forces with her unemployed friends Kip (Eddie Albert) and Ellen (Constance Moore) to form an act that they hope will take New York City by storm. On the cabaret scene, Kip’s pseudo-intellectual songs tend to alienate audience members, but Ellen is noticed by a producer who wants to turn her into a movie star. Whisked off to Hollywood, Calif., she must choose between personal fame and her budding romance with the failed songwriter, Kip.

Nightclub singer cares for an abandoned baby, while her rival schemes to use this situation to start scandalous rumors. Songs include “Tootin’ My Own Horn”, “Sweet Sue” & more. Dir. Howard Bretherton

New York band leader goes to Hollywood to make a film, and is mistakenly thought of as arrogant by the producers. To cure him, they decide to keep the movie’s success from him! Songs include: “Right or Wrong”, “Any Old Love”, “Out of the Blue” & more. Director Schertzinger also Produced, as well as writing the Music and Story! Dir. Victor Schertzinger

Ventriloquist can express himself only through a dummy, losing his own identity, and causing him to go insane. Dir. James Cruze.