Arthur Tracy

Bimbo leads an awful German street band to serenade Betty Boop, but she prefers Arthur Tracy, 'Street Singer of the Air,' who in live- action sings several old-fashioned songs with a Bouncing Ball. (imdb)

A Screen Song from the Fleischer Studios with the Irving Berlin song "Reaching for the Moon".

A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and is suckered into posing as her husband.

This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major movie moguls who controlled the studios shared. Through clips of various films, the filmmakers illustrate the dominant themes like that of the outsider, the outspoken American patriotism, and rooting for the underdog in society. (imdb)

Backstage is more flavorful fluff from the star/director combo of Anna Neagle and Herbert Wilcox Neagle. Neagle plays a likeable chorine who hears tenor Arthur Tracy singing on streets. No surprises here: before he left for England, Tracy had gained fame in the US as radio's "Street Singer". But back to the plot: Neagle tries to find work for Tracy, but he doesn't get his Big Break until a major star comes down with laryngitis. Nope, still no surprises here. (imdb)

A Max Fleischer Screen Songs cartoon with part of it devoted to cartoon animation and the other part to Arthur Treacy, radio's Street Singer, doing the Irving Berlin song, with words and dancing-ball double-exposed at the lower left of the frame for audience participation. (imdb)

In this romantic drama, a renowned stage singer leaves the theatre to become a gypsy after his voice weakens. In the gypsy camp, he continues to sing on the street. While there, he falls for a beautiful, naive gypsy girl who doesn't know that he is famous.

Monte is a hapless bumbler in love with a police sergeant's daughter, but he says no to their marrying until Monte shows he can get a responsible job with a uniform.He gets one as a ship's orderly on a Dayliner, but tells his prospective father-in-law he's the Captain. They all show up on the ship, and Monte must keep the real Captain locked up , away from his fiancée and father.

Walter Winchell befriends a sassy pickpocket and then gets blamed for missing money.