Warren Murray

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

A Soundie with Gus Van.

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