Rodgers & Hart in MAKERS OF MELODY - 1929 Paramount short

Rodgers & Hart in MAKERS OF MELODY 1929 Paramount short starring Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart as themselves. it was directed by S. Jay Kaufman, and filmed at Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, 1929, by Paramount Pictures. It includes three full songs: “Manhattan“, performed by Allan Gould & Ruth Tester; “The Girl friend“, performed by Allan Gould & Inez Courtney; and “The Blue room“, performed by Robert Cloy & Kathryn Reece. Comedienne Inez Courtney was in several Rodgers and Hart shows on broadway; then relocated to Hollywood in the early 1930’s where she was also in several early Rodgers and Hart films. Kathryn Reece had a supporting role in the 1930 Marx Brothers film “Animal crackers“, which was also filmed in New York (in Queens). Ruth Tester was featured in several broadway musicals, including the 1930 edition of “The Garrick Gaieties.“ Actors Allan Gould & Robert Cloy each have only one other film credit (in separate Vitagraph shorts), but little else is known of them.