Blue Skies is a 1946 film starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and Joan Caulfield. This clip features the character Johnny Adams, played by Bing Crosby, singing the 1926 ballad “Blue Skies”. This is the title song for the movie. The scene also features...
In this clip from the 1942 movie You Were Never Lovelier, Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth dance to “The Shorty George”. It also features Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra. The film was directed by William A. Seiter and is the second and last of Astaire’s...
Movie trailer for the film Undercover Maisie, the final in the MGM “Maisie” series. The movie follows a stranded showgirl that joins the police force and risks her life to expose a phony psychic. Maisie Ravier is a popular fictional character, played by...
The Enchanted Square is a 1947 Noveltoon cartoon and tells the story of a discarded Raggedy Ann doll found by Police Officer Flanigan and given to a young blind girl named Billie. After wishing that she could see the doll, Raggedy Ann comes to life and tells her that...
This classic animated commercial for Ajax Cleanser aired in 1947 and featured the jingle “You’ll stop paying the elbow tax when you start cleaning with Ajax”. The “Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum Bum” musical score was written by Joe Rines....
