4-978: Archibald L. Mayo (January 29, 1891 – December 4, 1968) was a film director, screenwriter and actor. The son of a tailor, Mayo was born in New York City. After attending the city's public schools, he studied at Columbia University. Mayo moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working as a director in 1917. His films include Is Everybody Happy? (1929) with Ted Lewis , Bought! (1931) with Constance Bennett , Night After Night (1932) with Mae West , The Doorway to Hell (1930) with James Cagney and Lew Ayres , Convention City (1933) with Joan Blondell , The Mayor of Hell (1933) with James Cagney, The Petrified Forest (1936) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart , and The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) with Gary Cooper . Mayo retired in 1946, shortly after completing A Night in Casablanca with
8-716: A hoarse voice. Best song: I'm the Medicine Man for the Blues " The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive . The Is Everybody Happy ? (1929) Complete Vitaphone Soundtrack, in two parts, can be found on YouTube . The film itself is considered a lost film , according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five-minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube . Lewis and his orchestra also appeared in
12-753: Is an American pre-Code musical film starring Ted Lewis , Alice Day , Lawrence Grant , Ann Pennington , and Julia Swayne Gordon , directed by Archie Mayo , and released by Warner Bros. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke , except for " St. Louis Blues " by W. C. Handy and " Tiger Rag ". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" "...some nonsense about an old Hungarian violinist who played symphonies for royal families and his son who played jazz. Elements of mother love, fatherly pride, wealth that can buy finery but not happiness, fail to depress Jazz King Lewis. He excitedly and excitingly blows his clarinet and saxophone, juggles his high hat, croons odd songs in
16-852: The Marx Brothers and Angel on My Shoulder with Paul Muni , Anne Baxter , and Claude Rains . Mayo has a star at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame . It was dedicated February 8, 1960. Mayo died of cancer in Guadalajara, Mexico on December 4, 1968. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. Is Everybody Happy%3F (1929 film) Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
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