4-480: Variety Time is a 1948 American variety film directed by Hal Yates . The film is a compilation of musical numbers from various RKO features and comedy footage from RKO short subjects. Future Tonight Show host Jack Paar appears as master of ceremonies, offering comic monologues, introducing the assorted clips, and playing straight man for Hans Conried in a dialect-comedy sketch. The previously filmed sequences include comedy stars Leon Errol and Edgar Kennedy ,
8-425: A Flicker Flashbacks silent-movie revival, and musical numbers with dance act Jesse and James (in an out-take from the 1944 musical Show Business ); Lynn, Royce and Vanya in a specialty from Seven Days Leave , Frankie Carle and his orchestra in a clip from Riverboat Rhythm , and Miguelito Valdes in a scene from Pan-Americana . The film was inexpensively produced (only $ 51,000 for the entire feature) and showed
12-426: A profit of $ 132,000, prompting RKO to compile three more "clip shows," Make Mine Laughs (1949), Footlight Varieties (1951), and Merry Mirthquakes (1953). Hal Yates Hal Yates (July 26, 1899 – August 1, 1969) was an American screenwriter and film director . He wrote for 96 films between 1924 and 1953. He also directed 88 films between 1926 and 1953. He started his career in entertainment in
16-658: A vaudeville double-act called 'Yates and Lawley'. Yates first worked at the Hal Roach Studios where he directed a few early Laurel and Hardy comedies (including the lost Hats Off ),and later worked at the RKO studios directing short films featuring Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol . He was born in Chicago , Illinois , and died in Los Angeles, California . This article about an American screenwriter born in
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