Ups and Downs (1937 film)
| Ups and Downs | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Roy Mack |
| Produced by | Vitaphone Corporation |
| Written by |
Jack Henley Cyrus Wood |
| Starring |
Hal Le Roy June Allyson |
| Music by |
Sammy Cahn Saul Chaplin Cliff Hess |
| Cinematography | Ray Foster |
| Edited by | Bert Frank |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Release date
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1937 |
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Running time
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21 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Ups and Downs (1937) is a short film released by Warner Brothers as part of Warner's "Broadway Brevities" series of two-reel musical shorts, released in 1937 and 1938. This entry starred Broadway dancer Hal Le Roy and was directed by Roy Mack.
The film was made in New York City, and was Bronx native June Allyson's first film for a major studio.
An elevator operator Harry Smith (Hal Le Roy), who works in a luxury hotel, courts the hotel president's daughter June Dailey (June Allyson). She is engaged to another, but when her fiance leaves on a business trip, Harry asks her to join him for dinner.
During dinner, Harry is introduced to her father, who misinterprets Harry's remarks about elevators as being a tip to invest in the Ups and Downs Elevator Company. June's fiance returns and breaks off the engagement, thinking that his prospective father-in-law has lost everything on a worthless stock. The investment turns out to be wildly profitable, though, Harry and June are engaged, and the film ends with them tap-dancing away in a production number dominated by a giant stock ticker machine.
Ups and Downs appears as a special feature on the 2005 DVD of the film Stage Door.
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