
21 Oct 1942

For Me and My Gal
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
Vaudeville team Shaw & Lee sing songs and tell jokes in hilarious deadpan.
Shaw
Lee
21 Oct 1942
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
04 Feb 1928
The 'Debutantes' are an all female orchestra led and directed by Harry Wayman doing some musical and dancing routines, Harrry accompanies with the violin.
20 Apr 1928
The scene is a parlor out West, with Ray Mayer sitting at the piano in is cowboy duds - hat, scarf, and chaps. He plays a little barrel-house music and then introduces Edith Evans, who enters wearing fur. She sings - her voice a light-opera soprano - while Mayer plays.
28 Jan 1929
The comedy team of Jack Born and Elmer Lawrence perform their vaudeville act.
17 Oct 1928
Comedian Chaz Chase performs his vaudeville act.
11 Sep 1928
Eddie White performs his vaudeville act.
09 Dec 1929
A comedic team. The Ann seems to try and come across as a Mae West type. Jay plays the role of the straight partner.
04 Sep 1928
Jack Waldron performs his stand-up vaudeville act.
15 May 1930
Ben Bernie and his orchestra play a few songs for a vitaphone recording.
11 Mar 1929
Comedian Pat West performs his vaudeville act.
21 Jul 1929
Harry Fox performs his vaudeville act.
25 Apr 1941
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
27 May 1933
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
24 Dec 1996
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
05 May 1940
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.
20 Aug 1924
An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown.
27 Mar 1948
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
02 Mar 1902
A woman shows off her trained dogs.
30 Apr 1894
The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.
01 Jan 1919
Opens on a closeup of a baboon "playing" a violin, then cuts to a medium shot of the same. The baboon wears a white short-sleeved shirt with a loose bow tie and tweed pants. Cuts to a closeup of the baboon in a circular mask or iris effect, without the violin but with a collar around his neck and a striped kitten that he places on his shoulder. Another iris effect opens to a long shot of a stage with a painted backdrop of a river. Standing at stage left is a woman in a spangled, sleeveless dress to the knee and high laced boots, holding the leash of a dark donkey. (Library of Congress)