Varieties on Parade is a 1951 American musical film directed by Ron Ormond and released by Lippert Pictures. The film is a simple variety hour with no plot, replicating a vaudeville show.

Plot

Master of ceremonies Eddie Garr delivers a monologue about Hollywood locals trying to impress movie producers. He introduces a lineup of dancers, harmonica players, a dog act, a comic adagio act, acrobats, jugglers and cyclists. Guest stars are spotted between the acts: Jackie Coogan lampoons his 1921 breakthrough role as "The Kid," with Eddie Garr imitating Charlie Chaplin; Eddie Dean offers a cowboy song and engages Garr and Coogan in comic patter; Tom Neal and Iris Adrian, both featured in Lippert productions, perform a flirtation act and Lyle Talbot appears in a sketch with burlesque veterans Jean Carroll and Harry Rose.

Cast

Production

In 1948, during the dawn of commercial television, many of its programs depended on live entertainment, relying on vaudeville specialty acts. This exposure created new interest in vaudeville performers and variety shows.[citation needed]

Beginning in 1949, former vaudeville dancing star June Carr and her husband, producer-director Ron Ormond, produced a series of vaudeville-based musical features on $10,000 budgets.

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