“A NIGHT AT THE PALACE”: VITAPHONE’S GREATEST HITS
2:00 6:00
Tuesday, September 27
Vaudeville’s heyday comes alive with the crème de la crème of variety shorts, all filmed at Vitaphone’s Avenue M studios in Brooklyn. The stellar line-up includes Baby Rose Marie, Joe Cook, Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields, Trixie Friganza, Georgie Price, Mayer and Evans, Jimmy Conlin and Myrtle Glass, and Al Jolson (in a sound short made a year before The Jazz Singer) – and perhaps the two greatest vaude shorts of all: Shaw and Lee in “The Beau Brummels” and Burns and Allen in “Lamb Chops.” Introduced by Vitaphone Project founder Ron Hutchinson. 35mm prints courtesy UCLA Film & Television Archive. Approx. 110 mins.
Program will include:
AL JOLSON IN “A PLANTATION ACT”
THE HAPPY HOTTENTOTS
BLOSSOM SEELEY & BENNIE FIELDS
TRIXIE FRIGANZA IN “MY BAG O TRIX”
BURNS & ALLEN IN “LAMBCHOPS”
GEORGIE PRICE IN “DON'T GET NERVOUS”
JAY C. FLIPPEN IN “THE HAM WHAT AM”
MAYER & EVANS IN “THE COWBOY AND THE GIRL”
BABY ROSE MARIE, THE CHILD WONDER
CONLIN AND GLASS IN “SHARPS AND FLATS”
SHAW AND LEE, THE BEAU BRUMMELS