Les Brown

Status Anxiety discusses the desire of people in many modern societies to "climb the social ladder" and the anxieties that result from a focus on how one is perceived by others. De Botton claims that chronic anxiety about status is an inevitable side effect of any democratic, ostensibly egalitarian society. (en.wikipedia.org)

Variety show with several comedy sketches and some musical performances. Some of the sketches and stage acts were quite daring for the time.

Virginia O'Brien visits Martin Block as he hosts a radio show devoted to Les Brown and His Band of Renown. A few numbers are heard from the band as Block gives a brief history of how they started. O'Brien also recalls her first movie song.

Musical short featuring Les Brown's take on Strauss' "Blue Danube", Art Lund singing "Mam'sell" to a beautiful blonde, and "Sad Cowboy" while riding on a horse (!), and Tex Beneke sings "Somebody Loves Me".

A young woman who is unable to pay her rent gets some unexpected help from her fellow tenants who organize a rent party complete with rousing swing music and lots of dancing.

Les Brown and His Orchestra perform “My Lost Horizon” with Doris Day

Doris Day & Jimmie Palmer have a romantic musical interlude.