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Ups and Downs (1937 film)

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This article refers to the 1937 musical short film starring Hal Le Roy and June Allyson. For the 1915 silent comedy film starring Oliver Hardy, click here.

Ups and Downs
Directed byRoy Mack
Written byJack Henley
Cyrus Wood
Produced byVitaphone Corporation
StarringHal Le Roy
June Allyson
CinematographyRay Foster
Edited byBert Frank
Music bySammy Cahn
Saul Chaplin
Cliff Hess
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
1937
Running time
21 minutes
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish

Ups and Downs is a 1937 film released by Warner Brothers Pictures. It was part of Warner's "Broadway Brevities" series of musical shorts, and was directed by Roy Mack.

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 ticker-tape machine.

Cast