At Your Service
At Your Service – 1940s
MORE ...Stockings of Tomorrow
Stockings of Tomorrow – 1940s The future you ask? Inarguably, these are the stockings of tomorrow.
MORE ...Male Order
Gags & Gals: Male Order – 1940s
MORE ...Amalia Aguila: Afro Mood
Exotic burlesque dancer short from the forties, with a faux-Arabian theme. Perhaps something you would have seen in Havana after losing at the casino, pre-Castro. Starring Amalia Aguilar. Saucy.
MORE ...A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor
Stage, radio and film star Eddie Cantor puts on a classic vaudeville routine including a few jokes in between breaking into song. One of the biggest entertainers of the early 20th century, the type self-deprecating humor he helped define can still has influence today with comedians such as Letterman, Conan, and Jon Stewart. Lately, Cantor […]
MORE ...Tica Ti – Tica Ta
Tica Ti Tica Ta, produced in 1942, stars “dynamite swing singer” Ginger Harmon and vaudeville dancing team the Mercer Brothers. On April 18, 1942 Billboard’s Movie Machine Reviews writes, “Ginger Harmon and the Mercer Brothers don South American garb for Tica Ti – Tica Ta. Ginger sings well and the nimble Mercer boys contribute a […]
MORE ...Feature Film: Sex Madness
“This man wants your daughter!” – Sex Madness Sex Madness is director Dwain Esper’s 1938 follow up to his 1936 masterpiece Marihuana. Burlesque show girls and midnight ramblers play Russian roulette with the dangers of Syphilis. From the original movie poster: “Our crowd of boys was out for a good time.” “She sought Big Thrills […]
MORE ...Frank Westphal’s Orchestra: Sing You Sinners
In this soundie from the early 1930’s, Frank Westphal’s Orchestra performs Sing You Sinners live on WENR Chicago. Westphal, a native to Chicago, began his career as a pianist-for-hire in vaudeville around 1910. It was during his time on the circuit that the up-and-coming performer met the great singer Sophie Tucker who hired him as […]
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