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'''Smash Your Baggage''' is a 1932 [[Vitaphone]] [[Pre-Code Hollywood|pre-Code]] short comedy film released by [[Warner Brothers]] as part of its "Vitaphone Varieties" series on October 29, 1932. Directed by [[Roy Mack]], the film features African American performers Carrie Marrier, [[Mabel Scott]], the [[Smalls Paradise]] Entertainers and [[Lew Payton]] who co-wrote and performed in [[Chocolate Dandies]], a film that launched the career of [[Josephine Baker]]. <ref> Youtube. "Smash Your Baggage." (1932). Opening Credits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0UlGKLURwQ </ref> |
'''Smash Your Baggage''' is a 1932 [[Vitaphone]] [[Pre-Code Hollywood|pre-Code]] short comedy film released by [[Warner Brothers]] as part of its "Vitaphone Varieties" series on October 29, 1932. Directed by [[Roy Mack]], the film features African American performers Carrie Marrier, [[Mabel Scott]], the [[Smalls Paradise]] Entertainers and [[Lew Payton]] who co-wrote and performed in [[Chocolate Dandies]], a film that launched the career of [[Josephine Baker]]. <ref> Youtube. "Smash Your Baggage." (1932). Opening Credits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0UlGKLURwQ </ref> <ref> Chocolate Dandies, The : "New Musical Comedy" by Noble Sissle and Lew Payton.." https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/284727 </ref> |
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Smash Your Baggage is a 1932 Vitaphone pre-Code short comedy film released by Warner Brothers as part of its "Vitaphone Varieties" series on October 29, 1932. Directed by Roy Mack, the film features African American performers Carrie Marrier, Mabel Scott, the Smalls Paradise Entertainers and Lew Payton who co-wrote and performed in Chocolate Dandies, a film that launched the career of Josephine Baker. [1] [2]
| Smash Your Baggage | |
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| Directed by | Roy Mack |
| Written by | A. Dorian Otvos |
| Starring | Carrie Marrier Lew Payton Mabel Scott Elmer Snowden Orchestra Smalls Paradise Entertainers |
| Cinematography | Edwin B. DuPar |
| Music by | Elmer Snowden Elmer Snowden Orchestra |
| Distributed by | Warner Brothers |
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Running time | 9 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Written by famed Hungarian writer A. Dorian Otvos, the film features the music of Elmer Snowden and his Elmer Snowden Orchestra who perform the "Bugle Call Rag." The "Bugle Call Rag" is included on the album "That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History (1895-1950)", Vol. 2 (1927-1934).[3]
Plot
A group of African-American redcaps at a busy train station perform musical numbers to raise money for a sick member of their group.
- ^ Youtube. "Smash Your Baggage." (1932). Opening Credits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0UlGKLURwQ
- ^ Chocolate Dandies, The : "New Musical Comedy" by Noble Sissle and Lew Payton.." https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/284727
- ^ Youtube. "Smash Your Baggage." (1932). Opening Credits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0UlGKLURwQ