Cliff Hess

Ups and Downs

An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father.

Ups and Downs

An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father.

Hotel a la Swing

In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel.

The Love Department

In this musical short, a love columnist can't find her own love connection.

Main Street Follies

A New york producer sends a spy to a nightclub to report back on the musical acts.

Story Conference

A movie producer announces that Lillian Roth has been signed to do a movie and he calls a story conference with a director and writers to come up with an idea for the film. As they work through some ideas, performers act out those possibilities via song and dance numbers.

Picture Palace

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.

Picture Palace

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.

Kissing Time

An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutenant.

Seasoned Greetings

The owner of an unsuccessful greeting cards store decides to sell 'talking' greeting cards in the form of records.

Rufus Jones for President

A fantasy satire on politics in which a little boy dreams that he becomes President of the U.S. and his 'mammy' is Vice President. The film spotlights two now legendary performers much earlier in their careers: Ethel Waters and Sammy Davis Jr. In his first screen appearance, around the age of seven, pint-sized Davis sings, dances and clowns. Nicknamed 'the beanpole' slim and slinky Waters looks far different from the heavier figure she displayed in Pinky (1949) and Member of the Wedding (1953). Statuesque in a long glamorous white gown, she sings her big hit "Am I Blue." Davis, in turn sings "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You." (Separate Cinema)

The Narrow Corner

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

Nothing Ever Happens

In this parody of Grand Hotel, despite a dying man's efforts to enjoy his final days, a jewel thief trying to comfort a great dancer, and a big business deal in progress, there are still those who say that "nothing ever happens here."

Mystery of the Wax Museum

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.