
Roy Mack
Directing
Biography
Roy Mack (born LeRoy A. McClure) was an American director of short films, mostly comedies, with over 200 titles to his credit.
Known For
Hal and a theater manager see people watching a building excavation for entertainment. They suggest that city employees entertain their customers, including a singing tax collector. Hal becomes the Mayor's assistant.
Syncopated City

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.
Story Conference
This short features Judy Garland's very first film solo, Blue Butterfly. The film footage no longer exists.
A Holiday in Storyland
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy's plane runs out of gas and lands in the African jungle. After a short comedy routine between the two, some natives come by and insist that they stay for dinner. The question then becomes what (or who) will the dinner be.
Africa Speaks -- English

A movie director needs a script girl . A strip girl, misunderstanding the job title, shows up.
Script Girl

In this musical short, three individuals try to entice a reclusive uncle to join the festivities during Mardi Gras.
Masks and Memories

In this 100% fictional-plot short a fictional freshman, played by an actor named Don Tomkins), becomes smitten with and writes letters to a singer, Ruth Etting (Ruth Etting), on a fictional radio station. His fictional 1930s nerdy friends take her answering letters in return and torment him about no response. The fictional Ruth Etting (played by the real Ruth Etting) meets him and helps him turn the tables on his tormentors.
Freshman Love

A young American man in Paris spots a beautiful woman in a crowd and is instantly smitten, but soon loses sight of her. Later, as he and several friends are sitting at a table at an outdoor cafe and he is describing her to them, he sees her again. His friends begin to tease him about her, and he bets them that he can win her love in 30 days even though he has no money.
Paree, Paree

"Swing cat" Louis Prima and his jazz quartette play songs and accompany featured singers and dancers.
Swing Cat's Jamboree
State College is a coeducational school where the athletics are more important than academics. All there are preparing for a big multi-sport match with arch rival Dale College. Students Arthur and Florence are brother and sister, each with love troubles. Their romantic problems are resolved against a background of leggy singing, dancing coeds in this 2 reel musical.
The Winnah!

Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king.
The Prisoner of Swing
A talented tap dancer who can't get an audition uses his prowess at playing craps to gain ownership of a musical show, making himself the star.
King for a Day
Two hotel guests are told the hotel is on fire, but the other guests and firefighters seem unconcerned.
The Still Alarm
An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father.
Ups and Downs

In this short film, Babe Ruth proposes to put a song about baseball on the radio.
Home Run on the Keys

In this entertaining short, famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark.
One for the Book
Old Lace is a 1931 Musical short.
Old Lace

Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.
Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'
Four convicts escape from a chain gang. Shortly thereafter, changes are made at the prison, because a blue ribbon commission will be investigating conditions there. The changes include steak every day for dinner and stage shows for entertainment. After reading about this, the four escapees plead with the warden to take them back in. Or was this all a dream?
20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang

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