Ben K. Blake

Two bumbling, small-time detectives are hired by a client to locate showgirls for an upcoming musical. However, the girls they find are homely and unattractive, but that soon changes when they discover a machine that turns them into beautiful chorus girls.

No synopsis available yet.

The Modernaires sing "Juke Box Saturday Night".

The Le Donne Trio's Hotsy Totsy.

Make sure there's a hanky nearby: After the death of their mother, older sister Betty works tirelessly, supporting her sister through nursing school and her fiancée through medical school only to see her happiness shattered when her sister and fiancée fall in love.

A rare and riotous parody of motion picture trailers.

Two bumbling, small-time detectives are hired by a client to locate showgirls for an upcoming musical. However, the girls they find are homely and unattractive, but that soon changes when they discover a machine that turns them into beautiful chorus girls.

Two bumbling, small-time detectives are hired by a client to locate showgirls for an upcoming musical. However, the girls they find are homely and unattractive, but that soon changes when they discover a machine that turns them into beautiful chorus girls.

No synopsis available yet.

The Modernaires sing "Juke Box Saturday Night".

The Le Donne Trio's Hotsy Totsy.

Make sure there's a hanky nearby: After the death of their mother, older sister Betty works tirelessly, supporting her sister through nursing school and her fiancée through medical school only to see her happiness shattered when her sister and fiancée fall in love.

A rare and riotous parody of motion picture trailers.

Ben K. Blake went out his way to ensure that vaudeville wouldn't die, and his series of film shorts virtually guaranteed it would. This one features Reg Keyoe and his All-Girl Marimba Band, the three dancing Winters Sisters, and The Modernaires. And, Andy and Florence Mayo got into their two-piece costume and kept the career of Pansy the Dancing Horse alive.

1937 Indy short distributed by Columbia; reissued by Sixteen M.M. Pictures. Early appearances by Barry Sullivan, Robert Shayne and Martha Tilton.

The "Sweet and Lovely" from Harry Cool.

An interesting & fun novelty act, Reg Kehoe & His Marimba Queens star in one of the simply marvelous soundie A Study in Brown (1944). The group really go to town on the marimbas, Reg the only guy with marimba putting himself center forward, surrounding himself like a Turkish sultan with babes pounding away on additional marimbas.