Warren Murray

A "Passing Parade" MGM short featuring tennis star Alice Marble

Fats Waller is at the piano with a bunch of pretty female dancers, one of whom that sits next to him at the keys is Vivian Brown. He tells her he needs no sugar since she's that and more to him as he implies by the title song.

Jimmy Wakely Trio sing "Git Along Little Pony".

An angel-in-training has trouble watching over a careless driver, and must plead his case before the Judge Angel.

A Soundie short starring comedian Willie Howard as a socialist revolutionary.

Fats and the gang are cutting it up on this 1941 music video of his 1939 hit “Your Feet’s Too Big”. Fats was one of the giants of jazz piano and one of the more popular performers in his day who played in a Harlem stride style.

A language teacher gives the titular advice to a class in this comedy short.

Fats Waller performs his best song and mugs for the camera with many a sly, risqué comment in this 1941 Soundie. A rare and impeccable record of one of the greatest showmen of jazz.

Willie Howard sings of his escapades as Tyrone Shapiro, the Bronx Cavallero, in Yiddish, Spanish, and English.

A Soundie with The Eton Boys.

A Soundie with Gus Van.