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Florence Brady, Herself: [singing] On the Mississippi fifty years ago, once a year the folks would get to see a minstrel show. Minstrel shows were given on the boat. Up and down the river they float. And on the day the boat was due the darkies all turned out. All along the levee they would shout, "Here Comes the Show Boat, Look at the Show Boat, it goes puff, puff, puffin' along. Each Mammy and Pappy are feelin' happy. They go shuff, shuff, shuff, shufflin' along...
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Short Never Takes Off
A Cycle of Songs (1928)
** (out of 4)
Florence Brady does three songs in this rather uneventful Vitaphone short. She starts off with "Sunshine" and then follows that up with "Now That She's Off My Hands" and closes things out with the Billy Rose song "Here Comes the Show Boat." Overall I was left pretty underwhelmed with Mrs. Brady as she just never really captured my attention. If I had to pick a highlight for this film it would be the last number, which at least had a pretty good beat to it. However, I found Brady's voice to be rather high-pitched and at times it was somewhat painful to the ears and especially when she'd go to his some of the higher notes. As with a lot of these Vitaphone shorts, this here was filmed obviously very cheap as the camera just stays in one position and it seems that the entire thing was done in just one take. It's always interesting seeing various stars of vaudeville in these old shorts but this one here didn't really take off.
** (out of 4)
Florence Brady does three songs in this rather uneventful Vitaphone short. She starts off with "Sunshine" and then follows that up with "Now That She's Off My Hands" and closes things out with the Billy Rose song "Here Comes the Show Boat." Overall I was left pretty underwhelmed with Mrs. Brady as she just never really captured my attention. If I had to pick a highlight for this film it would be the last number, which at least had a pretty good beat to it. However, I found Brady's voice to be rather high-pitched and at times it was somewhat painful to the ears and especially when she'd go to his some of the higher notes. As with a lot of these Vitaphone shorts, this here was filmed obviously very cheap as the camera just stays in one position and it seems that the entire thing was done in just one take. It's always interesting seeing various stars of vaudeville in these old shorts but this one here didn't really take off.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Jan 28, 2013
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- Florence Brady in a Cycle of Songs
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- Runtime11 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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