The Darktown Revue
With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Micheaux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the individual numbers. This quietly outrageous film begins with the high-toned He
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White Cargo
Day-dreamer Albert has hopes of being a superhero and saving the girls.
Die Kleine vom Varieté
Peter Verdy falls in love with Lola (Ossi Oswalda) who is mistaken for a boy when she appears in stage regalia before a rich uncle who has other marriage plans for his nephew. The tangle ensuing is finally sorted out w
Radio Parade of 1935
One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programming is that it is too
Return of the Jeni
The 2011 graduating class of Marquette University High School struggles against the tyrannical rule of it's teachers and faculty. They fight back using Green Day and Twisted Sister song parodies and eventually lightsabe
Glorifying the American Girl
A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend, who i
Pretty Ladies
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes
Fashions of 1934
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
The Drag Queen's Ball
A recording providing a rare glimpse at a combined cabaret and pageant hosted and performed by drag queens held at the Holiday Inn Dinner Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee. A showcase and splendour of glitz, glam and lip-syn