Benny Rubin performs vaudeville routines between singing and dancing acts.Benny Rubin performs vaudeville routines between singing and dancing acts.Benny Rubin performs vaudeville routines between singing and dancing acts.
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- TriviaA 2-strip Technicolor sequence, running 183 feet (nearly 56 meters, or about 2 minutes) features the 3 Brox Sisters in a number most likely intended to be part of The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929), is missing from the TCM print and is apparently lost.
- SoundtracksShe's Funny That Way
(uncredited)
Music by Neil Moret
Lyrics by Richard A. Whiting
Performed by Marion Harris as "I'm Funny That Way"
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Vaudeville Show
Benny Rubin mugs it up singing nonsense songs in between sets by the Brox Sisters, Marion Harris, and Belchers Kiddie Ballet.
It's a variety show that lasts about 20 minutes, and one of the standards of the genre. The big movie palaces usually had a live show as part of their presentation, and it was an expensive undertaking. Shorts like this one were a way to automate them. Now any theater could rent this short and have a show formerly available only to big theaters with thousands of seats.
Some of the bits, like Rubin's blackface routine have aged disgracefully. A two-strip Technicolor sequence featuring the Brox Sisters is missing; it probably survives in the black-and-white segment which features them.
It's a variety show that lasts about 20 minutes, and one of the standards of the genre. The big movie palaces usually had a live show as part of their presentation, and it was an expensive undertaking. Shorts like this one were a way to automate them. Now any theater could rent this short and have a show formerly available only to big theaters with thousands of seats.
Some of the bits, like Rubin's blackface routine have aged disgracefully. A two-strip Technicolor sequence featuring the Brox Sisters is missing; it probably survives in the black-and-white segment which features them.
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- boblipton
- Feb 2, 2024
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- Runtime20 minutes
- Color
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