The male singer is really good!

@BarryMoreno-zx4dc

6 ай бұрын

Yes, a good voice, This is the only picture of his in which he sings. Except for this, I’ve seen Donald Douglas in dramas and a few comedies.

@alexmckenna1171

3 ай бұрын

Not so sure about her though :-)

Up until the beginning of the Depression (October 29, 1929), the men used top hats and canes and gloves (every now and then) as seen in Al Jolson’s movie “About a Quarter to Nine”. Eight years ago I asked a 95-yr old about that. He said he was a kid at the time, but he recalled that style of dressing.😮🤗

Very clever dance and effective black and white attire!

I love watching musical numbers from c 1928-1929, since they were recorded live. You are watching a live performance, not lip-synced like almost all musical performances on film since 1929.

@MTed1

7 ай бұрын

No. The voices are too clean and even to have been recorded live.

@moldyoldie7888

7 ай бұрын

The girl's mouth isn't always in sync with what's heard.

@roverworld7218

6 ай бұрын

​@moldyoldie7888 Let's remember it was a 78rpm record/film synchronization that due to the differences in speed didn't always go in synch. And It's possible prior to been passed to DVD or digital recording the sound was "cleaned" and amplified when it was digitalized, so you are getting better sound than those who watched the movie in 1929 when it was released.

@moldyoldie7888

6 ай бұрын

@@roverworld7218 My belief is that the actors and orchestra were pre-recorded, and that's what you hear. What you see is actors lip-synching, and the actress sometimes messes up. FWIW, if Vitaphone was used, its speed would be 33rpm.

@roverworld7218

6 ай бұрын

@moldyoldie7888 Could be. As far as I remember 33RPM was the speed used by LPs since around 1948 (the other was 45RPM with the "big hole" vynils). But between the beginnings of the gramophone to the start of the LP after World War II the usual recording speed was 78RPM, which explains the "big" records used in Vitaphone recordings.

Donald Douglas (1905-45) had a leading role on Broadway and on tour in “Rio Rita” (1927) and in “The Desert Song” (1928), and other musicals.

Both singers have great voices

And you-awl-ways, ask me all the toooooiiiiime all abouttalotta Wedding bells that chooiiiiiime!

This is so cool on so many levels...i'm almost tempted to watch the movie but, I just want to think this is what people who i knew and talked to saw back in the 20's(stage show. music, clothes, singing)...God what a time

Such class... Fantastic number.... I watch this movie three times a year. Love Betty Compsom.

@drsunshine1959

8 ай бұрын

I loved Betty too!

@BarryMoreno-zx4dc

6 ай бұрын

So do I. Did you see her in “The Lady Refuses.” This unusual and moving 1931 film includes John Darrow and Gilbert Emery in the cast. Very good picture, indeed.

Most early films whose clips are on KZread probably looked and sounded this good at one time. Thanks for posting.

From THE GREAT GABBO (1929). The entire film is fascinating and bizarre in the best of ways. It also started the "ventriloquist vs his dummy" genre.

@gregorypalmer5403

8 ай бұрын

Yes, terrific movie plus his later Great Flammarion. What a nut ! In a good way . His performance in Sunset Boulevard is just the top of the iceberg. Oh yeah this little number is cute. She is a cross between Fanny Brice and Helen Kane.

@anthonycrnkovich5241

8 ай бұрын

And lest we forget THE CRIME OF DR. CRESPI as a noted surgeon who keeps a bottle of booze in his desk to sneak shots between operations.😂

Margie 'Babe' Kane was not related to Helen 'Betty Boop' Kane despite the squeaky voice. Both she and Donald Douglas were typical of early talkies: Broadway up-and-comers who could not hack Hollywood. Margie was camera-shy and Donald wooden. After marrying the celebrated film editor William Hornbeck, Margie did bit parts in routine movies. Douglas became a virtuoso voice on radio but died at 40. The long chorus line was choreographed by Maurice L. Kusell, who had a short spell in that field before trying vainly to break into films and TV as a producer. The girls' bending and rippling near the end of their number is copied from Larry Ceballos, the industry's most influential dance director before Busby Berkeley followed him from the Main Stem.

What a good quality panchromatic print. Sound is fair too. If only Congress had legislated to make films, like books and periodicals, compulsory items for deposit at designated libraries. So many films have been lost in whole or part, endure only in b&w when shot in color, or have to be struck from damaged negs. So much of historical and cultural value from the first third of the 20C is gone beyond recall.

@BarryMoreno-zx4dc

6 ай бұрын

These were private enterprises. No business of the government at all.

@esmeephillips5888

6 ай бұрын

@@BarryMoreno-zx4dc Do you also disapprove of statutory copyright libraries for print works, or of legal copyright protection against piracy?

@BarryMoreno-zx4dc

6 ай бұрын

You’ve got me there! Perhaps not.

Great song and duet!

Wow, that's a lot of dancers.

@elliecleary6062

Ай бұрын

That's what I thought 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

Love these. She sounds like she comes from bklyn I know I'm from bklyn

Authentic true 20's here not the usual stuff they use to represent the time.Pin-striped gangsters and women with feathers in their hair with some sort of "all that Jazz" type music playing,or just a bit better some tinny modern working of the Charleston

@chy-mefifioverdraftmitschp5320

3 ай бұрын

Oh God not that modern re-make of 20's jazz that sounds like music from a kids show. Some people enjoy it and that's fine for them. It always made me cringe hearing that. Just sucks cause I've yet to hear a modern band sound anything close to the bands from the teens, 20's, 30's, all the way to about the 70's for certain bands. They just have a completely different sound and I don't even think it's just the recording equipment cause I've heard bands from the 70's that use solid state recording equipment that have the sound I'm looking for. Is it that they tune the instruments different and use different arrangements of instruments? Idk what it is.

This film was shot in NYC, I believe. The second chorus line could prove this out. The talkies were slowly closing Broadway shows in 1929 and it probably would have taken little effort to "borrow" dancers off B'way for the closing number. All in step, high kickers, etc, Gad, they even look the same physically!! Those dancers are real pros. The first crew looks like they were hired the day they shot the scene. Did you notice one of the male dancers dropping his cane and picking it up without missing a step?

@tonyhurst5615

4 жыл бұрын

How big is that orchestra? 8 double basses(!) Anyone know which theatre the numbers were shot in?

@caroltenge5147

2 жыл бұрын

No.

@brosro1809

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyhurst5615 That ork looks like stock footage to me could be any ork hall

@brosro1809

2 жыл бұрын

@@caroltenge5147 no to what?

@drsunshine1959

8 ай бұрын

It was filmed at the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles CA.

Pure vaudeville style.

Amazing & restored but can't get any of the movies the same.

Super excellent with very good interesting video

Awesome. Thanks amen 🙏🏻

Wonderfull stage number!

Awesome thanks!

very catchy number - from an old film that has made it onto British television at least twice in the last ten years.

"The Great Gabbo" combined music and tragedy. Where did the find armies of dancing girl's?

Grand!

wonderful thank you

All dancers are really charming, but I wonder how many of them are still alive now.

@labryon

3 жыл бұрын

Arithmetic! 2020 - 1929=91 (years ago) Dancers age = +\- 25 91+25= +\- 116 Answer= 0

@MrEjidorie

3 жыл бұрын

@@labryon Thank you for your calculation. My father was born in 1927, and he has already passed away, and it makes sense.

@johnlyndsay

2 ай бұрын

@@labryon 🤣

Adorable!

👍 BRAVO! BRAVO!!, ENCORE!! ENCORE!!! 👋🤩💕💖👋👌

beautiful copy

Thank you for the Donald Douglas-Margie Kane duet on Every Now and Then from The Great Gabbo, starring Erich von Stroheim and Betty Compson. I haven't seen that movie in several years. Loved the number, however.

Today 60 cuts per minit !

Her costume is obviously before the Hays code came in.

thank you so much for posting this song. it's been a shared favorite between my mom and me.

total knockout! more more!!

That was fantastic. Wow.

The 1929 song was composed by musician Donald McNamee (1897-1940) and the lyrics were written by a poet known as King Zany (Charles Dill; 1889-1940).

Es un número musical "fabuloso" grupos de coristas impresionante, la pareja de inicio de canción se merece un "10" Me encanta lo veo todos lodos los días Julio Luís Rodríguez

Erich von Stroheim! With a marionette!

Gabbo!!!❤

One casting couch for each girl dancer hired (and maybe some of the guys, too).

I noticed one of the male dancers drops his cane and picks it up and continues. Amazing they didn't reshoot the scene. Anybody else see it?

When she started to sing I thought this was the woman who did Betty Boop's voice. But it turns out Helen Kane did Betty Boop (or inspired the voice). Quite the coincidence that they have almost identical voices and the same last name.

@chy-mefifioverdraftmitschp5320

3 ай бұрын

A lot of women singers copied that voice at the time. Annette Hanshaw was one of the first recorded although her voice didn't quite sound exactly like Betty Boops voice until Helen Kane came along. Kane actually filed a lawsuit against Fleischer studios (the creators of Betty Boop) for copying her but lost it. They claimed that Kane herself copied a child singer called Baby Esther. Personally I don't think Kane copied her since she was making records before Baby Esther even started performing although it seems the court didn't agree with that and ruled in favor of the Fleischers who later admitted to copying Kane

Notice the use of black and white

Anyone know which theatre this was filmed in please?

Margie Kane sounds much like Mae Questel.

The entire film is in fact quite dramatic and dark - Erich Von Stroheim's character predates Micheal Redgrave's role in Dead of Night by almost 20 years - a man controlled by the puppet

@BarryMoreno-zx4dc

6 ай бұрын

Yes. Otto the puppet.

Her costume is a bit shocking for the time, or maybe that was just me 😂 but I often am surprised by vintage fashions being more risqué than you’d think.

You're the dance director I don't care I want another 75 girls on that stage I don't care where you put them 75 is the least all except cram them in and make them dance hahaha

What's up with the eight bass viols? Is that common?

Is this actress the voice of Betty Boop?

@esmeephillips5888

2 ай бұрын

No. That was Helen Kane.

Is Margie Kane any relationship to Helen Kane, the Boop girl of the 1920s?

@barryrivadue9228

10 ай бұрын

No

I'm guessing Margie Kane was Helen's sister. If only the color print still existed.

Is this a metaphor for erectile disfunction? 😆🤣