Murray Roth
- Title: Murray Roth
- Popularity: 0.746
- Known For: Directing
- Birthday: 1893-11-12
- Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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1 1928 HD
The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short
5.8 1926 HD
A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also...
6 1934 HD
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934...
2 1929 HD
The Norman Thomas Quintet performs "Sleep Baby Sleep," "Listen to the Mockingbird," and "Melody in F," with quite a flair for comedy mixed in.
1 1928 HD
A hotel clerk from Iowa believes he's destined to collect first prize in a contest: a movie contract at a Hollywood studio.
6.3 1929 HD
George and Gracie enter an elegant drawing room, looking everywhere for something. Turns out, they're looking for the audience, and when George spots...
1 1933 HD
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him...
1 1929 HD
This Vitaphone short features Red Nichols and His Five Pennies performing songs, including China Boy, Nobody's Sweetheart, Ida Sweet as Apple Cider,...
6 1937 HD
A young man follows a pretty girl into her office, which turns out to be a musical dentist office. Cute chorus girls attend to the many male...
1 1930 HD
Robert L. Ripley first shows the very first cartoon of his, published in newspapers 8 years earlier. He then proceeds with various oddities, first...
1 1930 HD
The second entry in the Believe It or Not series of shorts begins with Robert Ripley in his office sorting his mail. At the time he received about...
5 1930 HD
At a charity bazaar, Ripley settles a thousand dollar bet by producing man who has not slept in 75 years.
1 1929 HD
Horace Heidt and His Californians plays "Tiger Rag", "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine", "Carnival of Venice" and "I'll Never Ask for More".
6 1930 HD
In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rural home to the big city, where a dancing girl in a...
1 1936 HD
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter...
6 1935 HD
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
5.385 1928 HD
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
1 1934 HD
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
2.9 1934 HD
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young...
1 1930 HD
Eddie, a modern man, suddenly finds himself in the palace in an ancient, mythical kingdom. This does not change his attitude or habits and, while...
5 1937 HD
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
6 1930 HD
Patient Charlie McCarthy, running a fever, is tended by Doctor Edgar Bergen. Will a tonsillectomy cure him?
1 1929 HD
This brash comedy team toured extensively in vaudeville, and even made a Victor 78 of much of the material contained in this short.
1 1929 HD
Two college boys have a flat tire. They proceed to play music on a tire, a bassoon, a balloon and an umbrella.
1 1929 HD
A young actress is interviewed and flashes back to her tenement days.
1 1930 HD
Bobby Jarvis and Eloise Taylor, a scrapping married couple, enter a newspaper essay contest on Happy Marriage, and win a trip to Paris.
1 1930 HD
Juvenile drummer, Buddy Traps [sic], later known as Buddy Rich, taps out harmony out of a wide assortment of objects, from drums to bottles, can,...
1 1931 HD
Ripley shows unusual athletic feats, a boy born with "clock" eyes, and a blind French monk who invented navigation laws.
1 1930 HD
Reporters interview Ripley about his world travels.
1 1929 HD
An energetic "heavyweight" song and dance troupe of six performs with gusto.
1 1930 HD
Gags and patter from an armed man at a musicale.
1 1929 HD
Henlere plays piano in the style of various “masters” and other instruments as a one-man band.
1 1933 HD
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him...
1 1929 HD
A comedic team. The Ann seems to try and come across as a Mae West type. Jay plays the role of the straight partner.
1 1930 HD
Ben Bernie and his orchestra play a few songs for a vitaphone recording.
1 1929 HD
Harry Fox performs his vaudeville act.
1 1930 HD
Two bums manage to get into a restaurant. They admit that they are a couple of self made men. A couple of comics they are.
1 1930 HD
Pressed into service, an inept comedian offers a burlesque on Helen Morgan.
6 1929 HD
The Mound City Blue Blowers and Doris Walker perform popular songs of the day.
1 1929 HD
This Vitaphone short features the Kjerulf Mayfair Quintette in their only film performance. Their act is basically five women, three on a harp, one...
1 1929 HD
The film starts off with Edith Murray joining the band for "Some of These Days" and right from this moment you know this thing isn't going to work....
3 1929 HD
The comedy team of Jack Born and Elmer Lawrence perform their vaudeville act.
1 1929 HD
Fred Ardath does his drunken vaudeville act in 'These Dry Days'.
8 1929 HD
Dooley and Sales vaudeville act 'Dooley's the Name'.
1 1929 HD
Vitaphone short in which Oklahoma Bob and his two "daughters" perform a series of musical numbers, including an exciting new dance craze.
1 1929 HD
Vitaphone short in which Charles C. Peterson performs a number of challenging billiard trick shots.
1 1929 HD
Mel Klee performs his black-face vaudeville act in 'The Prince of Wails'.
1 1929 HD
Harry Fox & Beatrice Curtis perform parts of their vaudeville act.
1 1929 HD
The Gotham Rhythm Boys perform a few of their songs.
1 1929 HD
Billie 'Swede' Hall & Company in the comedy short 'Hilda'.
1 1929 HD
Mr. Young introduces the sketch in an appropriately melodramatic fashion, wearing an opera cape and a glowering expression. He recites a bit of...
1 1929 HD
Carlena Diamond plays her harp for this Vitaphone production reel #864.
1 1929 HD
Anderson and Graves vaudeville act 'Fishing Around'.
1 1929 HD
Douglas Stanbury & The Lyric Quartet sing a few songs.
1 1929 HD
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
1 1929 HD
The Whispering Coronetist, Roy Fox and His Orchestra are broadcasting from Warner Bros. Studios and perform these three musical numbers: 1. 'Sally Of...
2 1929 HD
Grace starts the film by singing 'That's My Baby.' The five band members do an instrumental, then Grace sings 'Glad Rag Doll.'
1 1929 HD
Mr. Fiasco, a producer of plays gets three plays explained to him. In one of the plays, a man chooses scotch for a drink and dies. In the second play...
1 1929 HD
Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He becomes a rookie policeman who handcuffs Dynamite...
1 1930 HD
Sings a song he and five others wrote, 'You Want Lovin', and I Want Love.' Does a comedy skit. Then he sings another song he says he wrote, 'Can't...
1 1930 HD
Says how much he likes ballet. He wonders why the girls are always running with no one chasing them. And the male dancers are always running to the...
1 1928 HD
Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his...
1 1929 HD
Short musical comedy.
1 1929 HD
A musical short starring, Zelda Santley and Victor Pelle.
1 1929 HD
Opera singer Carolina Segrera belts out a couple tunes in this early Vitaphone short that has her being backed by don Alberto and His Argentines.
1 1929 HD
Bobbe Arnst accompanied by Peggy Ellis on piano plays us a few songs.
1 1930 HD
Clara Barry & Orval Whitledge dry comedy routine.
1 1933 HD
Two strip Technicolor short film. While the film is considered lost, the Library of Congress has acquired a musical sequence from the film.
1 1936 HD
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
6.5 1929 HD
A vaudeville act. Trixie Friganza performs first a story and then a song. For the story, she wears a wide-brimmed had and a matching diaphanous...
1 1927 HD
5.5 1928 HD
Comedian Chaz Chase performs his vaudeville act.