Movies by Roy Mack

Masks and Memories
In this musical short, three individuals try to entice a reclusive uncle to join the festivities during Mardi Gras.

Swing Cat's Jamboree
"Swing cat" Louis Prima and his jazz quartette play songs and accompany featured singers and dancers.
Broadway Ballyhoo
In this musical short, three barkers for a New York City sightseeing bus drum up customers with songs and nightclub tours.

One Good Turn
Singer Ruth Eton, of the singing team of Eton and Farrell, is told by her agents to get rid of her partner if she wants to advance her career. Instead, she gives him singing lessons. After a few months of training, he is good enough to be on his own and dumps Eton. When he loses his voice suddenly, he finds out who his true friends are.
A Regular Trouper
Ruth Eton (Ruth Etting), a singer with a traveling show troupe, is engaged to the troupe manager, Joe Grant (Edward Leiter), but when Ruth's younger sister, Laura (Wanda Perry) arrives, fickle Joe transfers his attentions and intentions to her. For the sake of her sister and the show, Ruth accepts her tough break philosophically, and sings "Why Did It Have To Be Me?"...because she is a real trouper.

The Prisoner of Swing
Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king.
Old Lace
Old Lace is a 1931 Musical short.

Double or Nothing
In this Broadway Brevities short, a stunt double is hit on the head and imagines himself in a series of movie scenes with doubles for various stars.
King for a Day
A talented tap dancer who can't get an audition uses his prowess at playing craps to gain ownership of a musical show, making himself the star.
Bubbles
A Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of make-believe where they sing and tap-dance. Marjorie Kane sings an introductory song. A very young Judy Garland, in one of her earliest surviving film appearances, performs the song "The Land of Let's Pretend" as part of the vaudeville act "The Gumm Sisters".
The Red Shadow
In this musical short, General Bierbeau sends his weakling son, Pierre, to French Morocco to fight Arab insurgents, the Riffs, in the hopes that this will toughen him up. Pierre soon becomes the Riffs' leader and assumes a secret identity: The Red Shadow.
Seasoned Greetings
The owner of an unsuccessful greeting cards store decides to sell 'talking' greeting cards in the form of records.

Plane Crazy

Home Run on the Keys
In this short film, Babe Ruth proposes to put a song about baseball on the radio.
Soft Drinks and Sweet Music
In this Broadway Brevity short, a soda jerk/songwriter dreams (literally) of performing his songs on Broadway.

Seeing Red
When he is fired from his job, Red puts a hex on his boss. That evening, the boss goes to a nightclub and discovers that the hex worked.
Opening Night
This short film satirizes theatrical opening nights.

Private Lessons
Hal LeRoy is hired as a tap teacher at Dawn O'Day's dancing school to give private lessons to female students. The school's manager, as well as some of his students, spreads false stories that Hal's lessons involve more than just tap dancing. He is fired and starts his own dancing school in the same building as O'Day's. Hal and Dawn now realize that their relationship was more than just business.
Ups and Downs
An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father.
The Winnah!
State College is a coeducational school where the athletics are more important than academics. All there are preparing for a big multi-sport match with arch rival Dale College. Students Arthur and Florence are brother and sister, each with love troubles. Their romantic problems are resolved against a background of leggy singing, dancing coeds in this 2 reel musical.