Movies: Joseph Henabery

Double or Nothing is a 1936 American short musical comedy film directed by Joseph Henabery. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnersh...

Musical performances set in a rooftop nightclub in Manhattan....

Santa's workers demand to be entertained and thus put on a musical show for themselves....

Larry O'Neil, a ship's cook, finds and befriends stowaway Lois Austin, who is a fugitive from a murder charge. The ship's captain, Klodel, also finds her and forces her to do his will as he has received a cablegram and knows she is hunted....

The Abe Lyman Orchestra performing three very elaborate arrangements in an early 1930's film short. Songs included are Rube Bloom's composition Song of the Bayou, Farewell Blues and Milenburg Joys....

A lost film. "The Young Fellow"(Fairbanks), has recently been hired as a cub newspaper reporter for the New York Herald. His editor tasks him with unearthing "the facts concerning a scheme to defraud a group of minor stockholders in the town of Melfo...

The new minister en route to a new western town to preach loses one of his suitcases containing his clerical robes. It is found on the road by Pete and Ike, cowboys of the Bar X Ranch, who decide to play a huge joke on the boys of their town....

Ruth Etting is the star attraction on the Albertson Travel Agency radio show. When her producers learn that her recordings are on another program at the same time, they devise a contest, based on the words in a song she sings, in which the winner get...

Dave Apollon go Russian for this musical short....

Comdy and musical short where Dave Apollon and His Band Meet the Kernel....

In a nightclub setting, Don Redman and His Orchestra perform three songs, and one number is performed by singers/tap dancers 'Red' and Struggie. (For the list of songs, check the soundtrack listing)....

The first 3 minutes of this Vitaphone Melody Master feature Phil Spitalny's orchestra playing popular music. The band's singer then fantasizes about her experience when she first arrived in America, looking for "Uncle Phil." As she wanders through th...

24th episode in the 1933-1934 Pepper Pot one-reel comedy series....

In Hell, Satan appears to tell us that rhythm is coming to life again, then we're taken to a sound stage where Jimmie Lunceford conducts his dance orchestra. He's in black tie and a tuxedo of white tales and black trousers. He announces that rhythm i...

In a nightclub setting, pianist Eddy Duchin and his orchestra play several popular tunes of the day. Sylvia Froos joins them for two songs. The novelty skating team of Earl, Jack, and Betty also perform. And the entire nightclub staff, including the ...

When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree are called in to investigate....

Jack Denny & Band sing an handful of songs....

Ben Pollack and His Orchestra are joined by a guest vocalist in performing popular songs....

Larry Clinton & His Orchestra and two guest vocalists perform a number of songs....

When "Eggs Mark the Spot" begins, it appears as if this Vitaphone short will have a plot involving a couple rubes joining the audiences at some radio shows. However, soon this plot just vanishes and nearly all the rest of the film involves showing va...