Ziegfeld Style Nightclub Act from 1929 (Part One)

[@jazzyspazzrawr]

Thank you so much for posting this, it's so important that things like this are available to this and future generations!

[@Jbacks57]

The Amsterdam Theatre and the Lyceum (both built in 1903) are the oldest existing venues on Broadway. The New Amersterdam was beautifully restored in 1997 and is on a 99-year lease to Disney.

[@solarvegan]

Now I've finally gotten to see with my own eyes the places and people Eddie had written about in his autobiographies.

[@dobrov1]

Thanks for uploading this SO MUCH. I really appreciate!

[@psperrazza]

i believe this video was from the rooftop theater at The New AmsterDam

[@paulj0557tonehead]

I just don't know what I'd do without these wonderful old films. Some people out there might think that these gals are over weight. These gals worked constantly and what you are looking at is solid muscle! Look at the 30's honies, just a matter of taste really, but the chorus girls in those films did a lot of standing around. Still though I think they are the most desirable females I have ever laid my eyes on.

[@betteroffsingle]

Sigclu ... How right you are. And I recall seeing it with my grandmother, and that's when I became a fan of he and Jolson. Lifelong! My grandma was a girlhood friend of Sophie Tucker btw. And yeah, heaven bless KZbin. Wonder how long we'll be able to enjoy same. You know, soon as enuff find some get pleasure, all fall down and go boom. Cheers.

[@antoniod]

Part of this was allegedly in 3-D.

[@piratecaptaincane]

Izzy Izkowitz! I can hardly believe it. I should live so long. Such a good boy and a great actor. What ever happened to variety (vaudeville)?

[@dick12235]

Thanks: MY Brain enjoyed this.

[@krystalhendrix9983]

Blackface takes away from any good this video could have provided, so freaking sad how blacks were ridiculed. He had no reason to be in black face.

[@Gaygarious]

@peterjohndean Styles were different then, no bony gals!

[@perfectjazz78]

Probably not, this was as STAGED Midnight Frolic Filmed at Paramount East Coast Studios in Long Island.

[@blacsouljah]

@cushtichavi Right. Where did we go wrong thinking otherwise?

[@jimohare3133]

I wonder if this was shot in the rooftop club at The New Amsterdam, or on a created set?

[@perfectjazz78]

@jrider4 I think it's 'Alabamy Bound'

[@jrider4]

Anyone know the name/composer of the song the "12 famous dancing girls" are dancing to?

[@Micelli1947]

Never get away with the black face today.

[@3636Clarence]

I fawd down and go boom

[@MidnightAndLulu]

Eeee...with all the perky energy of the 1920's entertainment scene, I'm glad some forms of entertainment have been phased out...like utterly ridiculous makeup that says so much about societal naivete. To think this would've actually been considered a compliment to black performers of the era!

[@1baud]

I think people, even people of color can look back on this as history. Just the way things were back then and hopefully get over it, maybe even laugh.

[@peterjohndean]

They all had fat legs .