Movies: Vaudeville

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944....

Ted Healy and His Stooges alternate mildly risque vaudeville routines with semi-elaborate Berkeleyesque musical numbers with beautiful chorines....

A narrator provides very brief info on the beginnings and history of Vaudeville while Vaudeville acts are staged by impersonators and contemporary performers....

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A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body....

A score of amateur children sing and dance in costume in a multi-act musical revue....

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio....

After eating a cheesecake given to him by a kind-hearted lady, a hobo goes to sleep and has a bizarre dream in which insects are putting on a vaudeville show for him, with a grasshopper juggling an ant, a dancing daddy long-legs, etc....

Comedy. A father whose looking for a suitable candidate for his daughter ends up having a mistress and tigers prowling all around him....

Sitting in a theater box, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy make comments between the acts of a vaudeville show....

There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas, for their own sake, they should not. An example among others: an expert who has come to the hotel for profess...

When the paperhangers go on strike, guests at a newlyweds' housewarming party try to finish the job with disastrous results....

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home....

Summaries Shorty's wife throws him out of the house for lying around reading detective thrillers and letting his boss Pigmeat get away with not paying him for the work he does at Pigmeat's barber shop in Harlem. He runs into Pigmeat on the street an...

In this Vitaphone Broadway Brevity musical short, Hal and Dawn work at the same vaudeville theater, where he's an usher, she's a chorus girl. When they both get fired, they form an act and vow to get back to their old theater, as performers....

On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s Wintergarten Theater. With live musical accompaniment, the compilation program included short film sequences with f...

Georgie Price tells Bryan Foy, who is to direct his short film, that he is nervous about performing to a camera and microphone instead of an audience. He then sings a couple songs, in an Al Jolson/Eddie Cantor style....

Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the performance. Later, she also twirls and does cartwheels....

Three young women with dark, curly hair stand on a stage with a black background and patterned carpet or tile underfoot. They wear tights, ballet shoes, and frilly dresses to the knee with multiple petticoats and ruffled drawers. They begin by raisin...

After getting kicked out of a vaudeville show for misbehaving, they decide to put on a show of their own....