Billy Mayerl
Acting
Known For
Shelly Rohde meets various celebrities to ask them which personal treasures they would seal away in a glass box for future generations. Guests include Hughie Green, Edward Heath and Victoria Wood.
The Glass Box
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Lost Chord
Three friends plan to marry their sweethearts, but when the former fiancée of one of them shows up threatening breach of promise because she's after his aristocratic title, they must think on their toes and resurrect his dead uncle, leading to comedic chaos.
Over She Goes
Gwen Farrar and Billy Mayerl sing two comic songs: 'The Old Fashioned Girl' and 'He's a Dangerous Man'.
Notes and Notions
Gwen Farrar, vocal, and Billy Mayerl, piano and vocal, perform "I've Got a Sweetie on the Radio" by Billy Mayerl and Kenneth Western, in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.