Variety Time

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.

Variety Time
Directed byHal Yates
Screenplay byHal Law
Hal Yates
Leo Solomon
Joseph Quillan
Produced byGeorge Bilson
StarringJack Paar
CinematographyRobert de Grasse
Vincent J. Farrar
George Diskant
Edited byLes Millbrook
Edward W. Williams
Music byConstantin Bakaleinikoff
Production
company
Release date
  • August 21, 1948 (1948-08-21) (US)[1]
Running time
59 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The previously filmed sequences include comedy stars Leon Errol and Edgar Kennedy, 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 a profit of $132,000,[2] prompting RKO to compile three more "clip shows," Make Mine Laughs (1949), Footlight Varieties (1951), and Merry Mirthquakes (1953).

References
  1. "Variety Time: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  2. Richard B, Jewell with Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story, Arlington House, London, 1982, ISBN 0-517-546566.
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