Author Archive: Retro

In his debut, Vallee plays an out of work saxophone player who impersonates a band leader to avoid going to jail, and ends up accepting an invitation to play at a swanky party. Songs include: “I Love You Believe Me I Love You”, “If You Were the Only Girl in the World”, “A Little Kiss Each Morning” & more. Dir. Marshall Neilan

Vaudeville couple Joe and Sally split on bad terms. Sally, a beautiful and talented young woman, gets a break as a chorus girl in a musical production, and then hits the big time with a song she wrote, which is then used in the big time production. The producer Pat falls in love with her and proposes. Meanwhile the less talented Joe falls on hard times and resorts to selling soap tar in a sailor suit!. But Sally has a secret that is about to change everything!

Breen is a Civil War orphan, raised by a former slave, who saves money to send him to a private school. But when the local priest finds Phillip?s family, he sends the boy to New York to live with them. When they refuse to accept him as their own, Breen must rely on charm and his singing ability to win them over. Songs include: “Rainbow on the River”, “You Only Live Once”, “A Thousand Dreams of Love”, “Ave Maria” & more. Dir. Kurt Neumann

Movie actress visits a friend in South America, but her publicity agent spreads the rumor that she has been abducted. Written by Crane Wilbur. Songs include: “So Divine”, “Out of the Hills”, “The Love Fiesta”, & “Oh Bella Mia.” Dir. Crane Wilbur

During World War II, a plane crashes on an island full of dominating women.

A boy adopted by a San Francisco fisherman decides to leave his home when the fisherman’s sister-in-law moves in with her annoying son. Efforts are on to find Breen…but first, some musical numbers! Leo Carillo, Lee Patrick and Slicker the Seal also star.
Songs include: “Sell Your Cares For a Song”, “Fisherman’s Chanty”, “Return To Sorrento”, “Santa Lucia” & more. Dir. Bernard Vorhaus

Army private romances a burlesque dress designer to keep the presumed gold-digger away from his wealthy, middle aged father. Dir. William Rowland

During World War II, the Canadian Navy gathered a troupe of diverse performers (dancers, comedians, singers, musicians) from its ranks and sent them off to entertain their shipmates, and the show/revue ultimately played London’s Hioopodrome. The acceptance was based more on wartime-London’s appreciation of the gallantry of Britain’s sons and daughters from over the seas than it was on the artistic value of the show or the talent of the performers. The film is a fictional/fact mixture of the adventures of the troupe members, and the ending, only part filmed in Technicolor, is primarily the Revue as seen at the Hippodrome.

Pretty girl goes to join her fiance in South Seas, where she learns he now owes a huge gambling debt to a local bar-owner. Dir. Bert Glennon