Dudley Murphy Trailers
Ballet Mécanique Trailer
Dudley Bowles Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director. In his first short film, Soul of the Cypress (1921), a variation on the Orpheus myth, the film's protagonist falls in love with a dryad (a wood nymph whose soul dwells in an ancient tree) and throws himself into the sea to become immortal and spend eternity with her. Murphy's then-wife Chase Harringdine played the dryad. Murphy followed this with Danse Macabre (1922) featuring Adolph Bolm, Olin Howland, and Ruth Page.
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Total trailers found: 27
24 November 1941
A college girl (Bonnie Kildare) dreams of her boyfriend (Johnny Downs) as he sings her a love song. The song begins at graduation ceremony and eventually moves to a soda fountain.
08 March 1922
The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night.
24 November 1941
Soundie short featuring featuring performers Liz Tilton and Lee Murray
14 January 1943
About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio.
12 February 1931
A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle.
02 November 1939
A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.
08 April 1928
Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her.
28 February 1936
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings.
01 March 1931
A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle.
24 November 1941
A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Four Spirits of Rhythm
03 November 1929
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
11 November 1932
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
20 February 1941
Hoagy Carmichael at the piano sings the title song (lyrics by Johnny Mercer). Dancing by Dorothy Dandridge and Peter Ray.
25 April 1931
A dancer is jealous for her lover.
22 December 1941
Soundie, in which Jacky Green impersonates Eddie Cantor, and The Five Spirits of Rhythm are porters shining shoes.
15 December 1941
A Soundie featuring Gale Storm and the Dorn Brothers and Mary with The Palladium Handicap Girls.
11 July 1931
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love.
29 September 1933
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
24 September 1924
Ballet Mécanique is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy.
10 February 1939
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.
11 January 1935
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
08 December 1929
Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band.
08 September 1929
In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.
13 May 1928
A country boy travels to the city to make his fortune and prove his worth to the people back home
09 September 1928
A young stockbroker is in love with a nightclub entertainer. He loses his job and the girl at work one night obtains some information about money making stocks and passes it on to her boyfriend.
10 July 1921
Influenced by California Pictorialist photography of the preceding decades, it was in its own day recognized as an avant-garde film, but nevertheless it secured successful commercial distribution.
