Variety Reel #5

Duration: 1600

Year Published: 19301940

Complete Record: Color cartoon and live action (no titles) “Chiquita Banana’s Salad” The fruit industry’s propaganda show queen cartoon Chiquita Banana shows a lonely (cartoon) lady how to get her man by making a fruit salad using 2 pineapple rings and a banana. B+W excerpt featuring Marlene Deitrich singing and smoking in a cabaret setting from the film “A Foreign Affair”. Color (faded) cartoon featuring Little Lulu in “”The Baby Sitter”. Lulu baby sits a bratty little kid who won’t stay in his crib. Later she ends up dancing with him at the luxurious Stork Club while a caricature of Cab Calloway sings Hi Dee Ho. B+W short “Weekend in Hollywood” 1940s travelogue of Hollywood with shots of people getting off a small plane to visit Hollywood, the Hollywood Hotel, Republic Pictures, Universal’s Walter Lanz drawing Woody Woodpecker, Radio City, Columbia Square and CBS signs, Hollywood Blvd, Grauman’s Chinese theater, Sid Grauman, Jack Benny, Clark Gable, Shirley Temple autographs in the cement sidewalk, sign featuring Ken Murray’s Blackouts show, Hollywood Bowl, sign and empty amphitheater, Earl Carrol Theater wide shot exterior,interior floor show (brief), Tom Breneman exteriors restaurant, Radio Room exterior with Eddie Fisher sign, Morocco club sign, Red Nichols and his Famous Five Pennies sign, Slapsy Maxie’s, the Brown Derby, Mike Lymans, Los Angeles City College, UCLA campus, Sign “The Country Church of Hollywood”, Various Los Angeles church exteriors, Bob Hope and Red Skelton on all Fours playing golf, Forrest Tucker, Don Ameche, glamour girl, exit tourists on plane. Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra with Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly performing in this B+W 1940 Short. Dorsey outside signing autographs, close and medium shots of Dorsey playing saxophone with orchestra backing him. Helen O’Connell singing “Rubber Dolly” with orchestra backing. Bob Eberly sings “Only a Rose” with orchestra backing, Dorsey plays some sax. another song. B+W cartoon featuring Betty Boop in “The Old Man in the Mountain”