- Description
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American Musical Theatre: John Bubbles / John Bubbles [television/video]
- Title
- American Musical Theatre: John Bubbles [Television/Video]
- Performer
- Bubbles, John
- Published/Created
- 1960-02-13
- Genre
- Television/Video
- Abstract
- John Bubbles with Bibi Osterwald
The American Musical Theatre Revues. Program hosted by Jim Morske, as he examines musical revues of the 1920s, concentrating not on the lavish revues popular on Broadway but on those produced on a smaller scale, beginning with the All-Negro Revue. John Bubbles reminisces about one of the first of that genre, Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's Shuffle Along, and he and Bibi Osterwald perform the show's hit song, "I'm Just Wild About Harry" after which Bubbles performs the Charleston dance step as introduced in 1923's Running Wild. Morske then discusses Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields's hit revue Blackbirds of 1928 and tells the story behind the origin of the show's "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" which Bubbles then performs in song and tap dance. When Morske concentrates on the intimate Off-Broadway revues, such as the Greenwich Village Follies which satirized celebrities and customs of the day, Bubbles sings and taps to Ted Lewis' signature song "When My Baby Smiles At Me" from the 1919 edition. Bubbles and Osterwald close the program with one of the 1926 "Garrick Gaieties."
- Source
- Smith, Ernie: Selected List of Films and Kinescopes. In Jean and Marshall Stearns' Jazz Dance (1968).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015