THE FABULOUS DORSEYS. Embassy Productions, Inc., c1947. 88 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Acknowledgement is made of the "Freedom of Opportunity" radio broadcast entitled "Story of the Dorsey Brothers."
Credits: Producer, Charles R. Rogers; director, Alfred E. Green; original screenplay, Richard English, Art Arthur, Curtis Kenyon; music director, Louis Forbes.
Cast: Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Janet Blair, Paul Whiteman, William Lundigan.
© Embassy Productions, Inc.; 21Feb47; LP865.
THE FABULOUS FRAUD. Loew's Inc., c1948. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (John Nesbitt's Passing Parade) An MGM picture.
Summary: This film describes the life of Franz Anton Mesmer, late eighteenth-century Austrian physician who, while practicing as a charlatan in Paris, discovers the power of hypnotism. After his science falls into disrepute, he dies in exile, not knowing the value of his research.
Credits: Producer, Herbert Moulton; director, Edward Cahn; written and narrated by John Nesbitt; music score, Robert Franklyn; film editor, Conrad A. Nervig.
Cast: John Baragrey, Phyllis Morris, Marcia Mae Jones, Morris Ankrum.
© Loew's Inc.; 1Sep48; LP1794.
THE FABULOUS JOE. Hal Roach Studios, Inc., c1947. 59 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Comedy Carnival, pt. 2)