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| Directed by | Roy Mack |
| Written by | Jack Henley Cyrus Wood |
| Produced by | Vitaphone Corporation |
| Starring | Hal Le Roy June Allyson |
| Cinematography | Ray Foster |
| Edited by | Bert Frank |
| Music by | Sammy Cahn Saul Chaplin Cliff Hess |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date | 1937 |
Running time | 21 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Ups and Downs is a 1937 film released by Warner Brothers Pictures. It was part of Warner's "Broadway Brevities" series of 2-reel musical shorts (1937 and 1938), starred Broadway dancer Hal Le Roy and was directed by Roy Mack.[1] It was made in New York, and was Bronx native June Allyson's first film for a major studio.[2]
Synopsis
An elevator operator (Harry Smith, played by dancer Hal Le Roy) in a luxury hotel courts the hotel president's daughter (June Daily, played by a platinum-blonde June Allyson). She is engaged to another, but when her fiance leaves on a business trip, Harry asks her to join him for dinner.
During dinner, Harry is introduced to her father, who misinterprets Harry's remarks about elevators as being a tip to invest in the Ups and Downs Elevator Company. June's fiance returns and breaks off the engagement, thinking that his prospective father-in-law has lost everything on a worthless stock. But the investment turns out to be wildly profitable, Harry and June are engaged, and the film ends with them tap-dancing away in a production number dominated by a giant stock ticker machine.
Cast
- Hal Le Roy as Harry Smith
- June Allyson as June Daily
- Phil Silvers as Charlie
- Fred Hillebrand
- Alexander Campbell
- Reed Brown, Jr.
- Toni Lane as herself (singer)
- The Deauville Boys as themselves (singers)
Home media
Ups and Downs appears as a special feature on the 2005 DVD of the film Stage Door.[3]
References
- ^ Frank, Rusty E. 1994. Tap!: the greatest tap dance stars and their stories 1900–1955 . New York, New York: De Capo Press, Inc., p. 307. ISBN 0-306-80635-5
- ^ Koszarski, Richard. 2008. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Piscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, p. 542. ISBN 978-0-8135-4293-5
- ^ Dab Callahan and Ed Gonzalez (February 21, 2005). "DVD Review: Stage Door". Slant Magazine. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
External links
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