Ups and Downs (1937 film)
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 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. Pictures |
Release date | 1937 |
Running time | 21 minutes |
| Country | Template:Film US |
| 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 ticker-tape 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)
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
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