Whether you like the kind of entertainment that these Vitagraph shorts have to
offer you have to admit that they do preserve the acts of a lot of people who would be forgotten today. Jerry Wald later to be one of the big producers in
Hollywood in the 50s serves as a bartender for these lounge acts.
I think the only name you might know is that of Buddy Rogers who maybe most famous as Mary Pickford's last husband. His career ran out of gas in the early 30s , but he probably is most famous for being one of the stars of Wings and one of his wife's classics My Best Girl.
The Three Keys I swore were the Mills Brothers and they seem to be a copycat act. Harriet Lee&her Boyfriends and Lew Conrad and orchestra are pretty obscure. Uncle Don Carney was the host of a popular children's radio program whose career went right in the toilet when he said something nasty on a live mike.
But these people and their acts are preserved for history and that's what's important with this Vitagraph short.
I think the only name you might know is that of Buddy Rogers who maybe most famous as Mary Pickford's last husband. His career ran out of gas in the early 30s , but he probably is most famous for being one of the stars of Wings and one of his wife's classics My Best Girl.
The Three Keys I swore were the Mills Brothers and they seem to be a copycat act. Harriet Lee&her Boyfriends and Lew Conrad and orchestra are pretty obscure. Uncle Don Carney was the host of a popular children's radio program whose career went right in the toilet when he said something nasty on a live mike.
But these people and their acts are preserved for history and that's what's important with this Vitagraph short.