Hollywood Varieties

Hollywood Varieties (1950)

Big time Vaudeville on the screen

Entertainment trade-paper headlines report the resurgence of vaudeville as the new medium of television searches for new talent. At the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles, master of ceremonies Robert Alda introduces vaudeville performers while being frequently interrupted by several comedians

Date of release
1950-01-15
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Paul Landres

Casting

Interesting facts

Hollywood Varieties is a 1949 American film from Lippert Pictures, starring Robert Alda and a cast of vaudeville performers. The feature was directed by former film editor Paul Landres, who also edited this picture.

Production

Robert L. Lippert was a former exhibitor, owning a chain of movie theaters. In 1945, disappointed with the major studios' failure to make inexpensive features for smaller markets, Lippert began making his own pictures. These quickly found a market among small neighborhood theaters, especially in rural areas.

Hollywood Varieties was produced in five days by former vaudevillian June Ormond. The film was one of a series of low-budget, hourlong musical revues financed by Robert L. Lippert. According to June Ormond:

I wrote this little beginning about vaudeville dying, and Bob Lippert loved it. The picture cost $10,000. 1 got all the acts I knew from my years on the road. We shot with three cameras in a downtown L.A. theater. I worked day and night on the picture, even slept on the set. Only problem was, I hadn't come up with the ending yet. I had 20 minutes — the crew was gonna quit at five and we couldn't afford to keep 'em around.

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