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Showing posts with label 1945. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1945. Show all posts

Sunday, October 14, 2018

We the Cats Shall Hep Ya (1945, Soundie)









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Storyline
Soundie of Cab Calloway performing "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya."

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Jasper and the Beanstalk (1945)
















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Storyline
The Scarecrow trades Jasper a handful of beans for his harmonica. Jasper plants the beans and climbs up the resulting beanstalk and, at the top, finds a beautiful girl in a golden cage playing a golden harp. Jasper rescues her from the Scarecrow, brings her down the beanstalk, and spends the rest of his days dancing to the music his girlfriend plays on the harp.

Monday, December 4, 2017

It Happened In Harlem (1945)





Starring:
Ed Smalls is doing a tremendous business at Smalls Paradise Cafe in Harlem because Billy Bond is making a big hit with his singing. But when Smalls tell Bond that there will be a lot of celebrities in for the show, Bond shows his boss the paper - it's from Uncle Sam. Smalls is frantic, as he knows of no one who can replace Bond, so he starts accepting auditions to replace Bond. Frankie, a singer with a bobbysoxer crowd but little known, is turned away at the audition. Little Miss Brown, a Frankie fan, persuades Bond to listen to Frankie. 

**This film is located at the Library of Congress and Smithsonian, but never released and not archived online for viewing. We are considering this film missing until available to the public.**

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Big Timers (1945)


































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Beautiful and talented Betty is set to marry her soldier beau Tom, recently discharged from the Army. When her mother discovers that Tom's rich parents are planning to visit the hotel where they work, she schemes to "borrow" a lavish apartment and pretend that they are wealthy to make a good impression. All is going well until the real tenant, Mrs. Page returns! But Mrs. Page has sympathy for the love-birds, and invites all of her USO friends over to raise the roof with a swinging revue that includes a "whoopee dance" number by the exotic Tarzana, and a comic scat song performed by the inimitable Stepin Fetchit, all backed by the All American Girl Band! Starring Stepin Fetchit, Francine Everett, Gertrude Saunders and an all black cast. Directed by Bud Pollard.