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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Jazz heaven
The all girl band "The Ingenues" play four jazz favorites and boast solos and even vocal accompaniment on one number, all while being squeezed together on stage because of the sound technology being used - Vitaphone. You could not edit because as you recorded the sound was being transferred to disk. You would have to start over. You could not move the camera, so everything filmed appeared static. So it is some feat that these girls did manage to get all four numbers in one take, although we'll never know how many takes came before.
This 10 minute short is actually on the three DVD "Jazz Singer" set put out in October 2007 by Warner Brothers to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the debut of The Jazz Singer. It is too bad we don't know the history of this band, because of all of the Vitaphone shorts included in this DVD set, this is probably one of the most entertaining. So many of the others are really for those who study film history and could collectively be named "What Killed Vaudeville".
This 10 minute short is actually on the three DVD "Jazz Singer" set put out in October 2007 by Warner Brothers to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the debut of The Jazz Singer. It is too bad we don't know the history of this band, because of all of the Vitaphone shorts included in this DVD set, this is probably one of the most entertaining. So many of the others are really for those who study film history and could collectively be named "What Killed Vaudeville".
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- AlsExGal
- Dec 22, 2019
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- Also known as
- The Ingenues, 'The Band Beautiful'
- Filming locations
- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Warner Brothers)
- Production company
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- Runtime9 minutes
- Color
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