- Title: V-6952
- Summary: HOLLYWOOD REEL: HOLLYWOOD BEHIND-THE-SCENES, CIRCA 1950. ACTRESS-DANCER RUBY KEELER WITH DAUGHTERS AT HER DANCE SCHOOL. COWBOY STUNT MAN CAL PERRY AND HIS WHIP, HAT FASHIONS By KENNETH HOPKINS, STARLETS JILL RICHARDS AND MELICE MCCLURE, GO FISHING IN SWIM SUITS, AT HOME WITH FAMED BOXER MICKEY WALKER AND DAUGHTER PAT. HOLLYWOOD & OTHER CALIFORNIA LOCATIONS.
- Description:00:48:38 - "HOBBIES". VARIOUS SCENES TEN-YEAR RETIRED RUBY KEELER, NOW MRS. JOHN LOWE, TEACHING TWO OF HER FOUR CHILDREN, FOUR NIECES AND NEPHEWS HOW TO TAP DANCE ON OUTDOOR PATIO OF WHITE AND MANNING, RUBY KEELER, DANCE STUDIO. IN SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. DANCE; MOTION PICTURES; HOLLYWOOD. 00:48:48 - CU FEET TAP DANCING, TILT UP TO RUBY KEELER GIVING TAP DANCE INSTRUCTION TO TWO OF HER CHILDREN, FOUR OTHER FAMILY MEMBER, ALL LINED UP ALONGSIDE HER, FROM TALLEST 11 YEAR-OLD TO SHORTEST THREE YEAR-OLD NIECE FRANCES NEWMAN. 00:48:52 - CU RUBY HAS TO SHOW HER SEVEN YEAR-OLD NEPHEW, JOE VIRA, HOW TO DO THE ROUTINE PROPERLY. THE BOY DOES IT FOR HER. 00:50:00 - CU RUBY'S BROTHER BILL KEELER COMES ON SCENE WITH HER FOUR YEAR-OLD SON JOHNNY IN ARMS. CU JOHNNY GIVES MOTHER A HUG RUBY DOES DANCE ROUTINE WITH BROTHER AND SON. 00:50:36 - "BEHIND THE SCENES". HOLLYWOOD'S NUMBER ONE WESTERN STUNT MAN CAL PERRY DEMONSTRATES HOW TO USE A BULL WHIP WHILE RIDING ON HORSE "WARRIOR". *Note: (See V-6948 & V-6950 FOR MORE STUNTS BY CAL PERRY). 00:50:55 - CAL'S FATHER AND FORMER RODEO STAR BEN PETTY HOLDS ROLLED UP NEWSPAPER ON GROUND AS CAL COMES RIDING TOWARDS HIM, A QUICK DISMOUNT AND CAL SNAPS THE PAPER INTO PIECES WITH WHIP. 00:51:22 - AS BEN HOLDS PAPER ON GROUND, CAL CUTS PAPER IN HALF WHILE RIDING ON HORSE. 00:51:44 - IN DARING FEAT, BEN HOLDS PAPER UP IN AIR BY HIS TEETH AS CAL, AFTER MISSING MARK FIRST TIME, RIDES BY AND WHIPS IT IN HALF. 00:52:20 - IN SCENE OUT OF WESTERN MOVIE, CAL GALLOPS TOWARDS ARMED VILLAIN, WHIPS REVOLVER OUT OF HIS HAND CAL KEEPS WHIPPING AT GUN AS VILLAIN TRIES TO PICK IT UP. 00:52:46 - "FASHIONS". HAT DESIGNER KENNETH HOPKINS HELPS MODELS VIVIAN DUBOIS, BARBARA FREEKING, AND JERRI CAMERON, PUT ON AND SHOW SEVERAL OF HIS NEWEST DESIGNER HATS. 00:54:19 - "SPORTS". VARIOUS SCENES STARLETS JILL RICHARDS AND MELISE MCCLURE GOING FISHING IN SWIM SUITS WITH BOOTS, IN MAN MADE LAKE IN SHERMAN OAKS, OFF VENTURA BOULEVARD IN HEART OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, TEN MINUTES FROM HOLLYWOOD. 00:54:26 - CU SIGN: "SHERMAN OAKS". ANOTHER SIGN: "HOLLYWOOD TROUT LAKES". WHERE GIRLS GO FISHING. "SPORTSMAN LODGE", RESTAURANT WHERE THEY FRY THE FISH YOU CATCH IN TROUT LAKES, WHICH IS STOCKED BY TROUT, TRUCKED FROM NEARBY TROUT FARM. 00:54:32 - TWO STARLETS IN SWIM SUITS AND RUBBER BOOTS, WALK THROUGH FOREST CARRYING FISHING RODS, FISH BASKETS. GIRLS GO FISHING OFF WOODEN BRIDGE OVER MAN-MADE LAKE. 00:54:54 - CU JILL PUTS SALMON EGG BAIT ON HOOK. SEVERAL SHOTS GIRLS FISHING. MORE AT "CHEESECAKE" THAN FISHING. 00:55:28 - MELISE CATCHES GOOD SIZE TROUT, PUTS IT IN BASKET. GIRLS GET EXCITED WHEN JILL ALSO CATCHES A FISH. 00:56:23 - TWO STARLETS SIT IN RESTAURANT, LAKE IN BKGD, EAT FISH THEY CAUGHT. 00:56:25 - "AT HOME". VARIOUS SCENES FAMOUS, LEGENDARY BOXER MICKEY WALKER, WHO WON FOUR WORLD TITLES, GETS INTO "ARGUMENT" AND BOXING MATCH WITH HIS DAUGHTER, PAT WALKER, AS HE IS TELLING HER HIS LIFE STORY IN GARDEN OF HIS HOME ON A QUIET LOS ANGELES STREET. SPORTS; BOXING; WORLD CHAMPION 00:56:31 - RETIRED BOXER MICKEY WALKER DICTATES THE STORY OF HIS LIFE TITLED "THE TORY BULLDOG", TO TWENTY YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER "PAT" WHO WRITES ON PAD WHILE WEARING LARGE BOXING GLOVES. WALKER ALSO WEARS GLOVES. ODDITY. 00:56:34 - CU FACE SHOT OF FAMOUS FIGHTER. CU SHOT PAT WALKER BUSY WRITING ON PAD. 00:57:00 - CU MICKEY AND PAT GETTING INTO FAMILY ARGUMENT. THE TWO STAND UP, PAT THROWS PAD TO GROUND AND THE TWO START BOXING. 00:57:43 - PAT SWING WILDLY AT HER FATHER WHO TRIES TO PROTECT HIMSELF. AFTER MUCH WILD SWINGING BY PAT, FIGHT ENDS IN "KNOCKOUT" OF MICKEY BY HIS DAUGHTER. 00:58:39 - PAT KNEELS OVER WALKER'S PRONE BODY AND LECTURES HIM. SHE PULLS A PANSY OUT OF GARDEN AND HANDS IT TO HIM, KISSES HIM ON HIS FOREHEAD. CU THEY HUG CHEEK TO CHEEK.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1949
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-6952