An all-female orchestra plays popular songs of the day.An all-female orchestra plays popular songs of the day.An all-female orchestra plays popular songs of the day.
Dorothy Donahoe
- Self - Saxophone
- (as Dorothy Donahue)
- …
Mary Donahoe
- Self - Saxophonist
- (as Mary Donahue)
- Director
- Bryan Foy(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaVitaphone reel #2573.
- Quotes
Themselves: [singing] Shaking the blues away, Unhappy news away, If you are blue it's easy to shake off, Your cares and troubles...
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Entertaining Vitaphone Short
The Band Beautiful (1928)
*** (out of 4)
Highly entertaining early sound short from Vitaphone features The Ingenues, an all-female band doing a few numbers. This type of short was very popular and all too common during the early sound era. After all, musical performances weren't something that was possible during the silent days so a wide range of musicals were made as features and the short subjects had various groups performing for the camera. Most of these shorts just featured one camera and appeared to record everything in one take. The big difference with this short is that it's clear there are more than one cameras catching all the action and it also appears that more than one take was done so that they could get various camera shots. I really don't recall too many of these Vitaphone shorts where they'd use close ups of various band members and give the viewer a closer look at what they're actually doing. As far as the band goes, they are very good and actually make you take notice of them. The short does a very good job at grabbing your attention and add in the good music and this here is certainly one of the best of its kind.
*** (out of 4)
Highly entertaining early sound short from Vitaphone features The Ingenues, an all-female band doing a few numbers. This type of short was very popular and all too common during the early sound era. After all, musical performances weren't something that was possible during the silent days so a wide range of musicals were made as features and the short subjects had various groups performing for the camera. Most of these shorts just featured one camera and appeared to record everything in one take. The big difference with this short is that it's clear there are more than one cameras catching all the action and it also appears that more than one take was done so that they could get various camera shots. I really don't recall too many of these Vitaphone shorts where they'd use close ups of various band members and give the viewer a closer look at what they're actually doing. As far as the band goes, they are very good and actually make you take notice of them. The short does a very good job at grabbing your attention and add in the good music and this here is certainly one of the best of its kind.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Jan 25, 2014
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- The Ingenues, 'The Band Beautiful'
- Filming locations
- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Warner Brothers)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime9 minutes
- Color
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