• Cinesound Varieties is a 1934 Australian variety short film from director Ken G. Hall made to go out on a double-bill with the full-length feature, The...
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    highly popular. Dean Maitland was released on a double bill with Cinesound Varieties (1934), a short film directed by Hall featuring several musical acts...
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    Cinesound Productions Pty Ltd was an Australian feature film production company. Established in June 1931, Cinesound developed out of a group of companies...
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  • dialogue director Strike Me Lucky (1934) – co-writer, dialogue director Cinesound Varieties (1934) – co-writer, dialogue director Grandad Rudd (1935) – co-writer...
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    Lang, Nellie Mortyne, Dorothy Parnham, Joe Valli Comedy IMDb 1934 Cinesound Varieties Clara Gibbings Here Is Paradise The Man They Could Not Hang Secret...
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  • her "possibly the leading comedienne in Australia to-day." 1934: Cinesound Varieties Dir. Ken G. Hall 1942: A Yank in Australia Dir. Alfred J. Goulding...
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  • (1931) - film Cinesound Varieties (1934) - film Fred Bluett at Australian Dictionary of Biography Clay Djubal. Fred Bluett at Australian Variety Theatre Archive...
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    the only Australian actor under a long-term contract to a film studio, Cinesound Productions. She subsequently became a lecturer and poet. She was born...
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  • premiere due to illness. In Sydney is screened on a double bill with Cinesound Varieties. The film was given a poor critical reception, the Sydney Morning...
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  • Parker, although Hall later said he was dissatisfied with their work. Cinesound Varieties (1934) Strike Me Lucky (1934) Grandad Rudd (1935) "Vic Roberts" (2012)...
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    The Broken Melody (1938 film) (category Cinesound Productions films)
    WEEK. CINESOUND'S NEW PRODUCTION". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 26 May 1938. p. 24. Retrieved 14 August 2012. "Variety (January...
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  • The Silence of Dean Maitland (1934 film) (category Cinesound Productions films)
    changing was removed. Released on a double bill with the variety short Cinesound Varieties, the film was highly popular at the local box office and achieved...
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  • Strike Me Lucky (category Cinesound Productions films)
    the team of Vic Roberts and George D. Parker, who had just written Cinesound Varieties for Hall; Roberts had worked as Rene's gag writer and Parker had...
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  • Orphan of the Wilderness (category Cinesound Productions films)
    make a 50-minute short to support Thoroughbred similar to the way Cinesound Varieties was used to support The Silence of Dean Maitland (1934). Hall says...
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    Thoroughbred (film) (category Cinesound Productions films)
    Harold Meade Edmond Seward as Mr Terry The film was the first made by Cinesound after the studio ceased production in 1935 enabling Hall to visit Hollywood...
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  • vaudeville and helped run the Talent School at Cinesound Productions. Kellaway played a wide variety of roles for Ken Hall, ranging from a gay floorwalker...
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  • Dad Rudd, M.P. (category Cinesound Productions films)
    last feature film directed by Hall prior to the war and the last made by Cinesound Productions, Bert Bailey and Frank Harvey. Dad Rudd wants the size of...
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  • It Isn't Done (category Cinesound Productions films)
    who had recently joined Cinesound as a dialogue director. Harvey went on to write all of Ken G. Hall's films for Cinesound. Hall says he had considerable...
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  • Tall Timbers (film) (category Cinesound Productions films)
    Letty Craydon as Rosanna W. Lane-Bayliff as Gavan Peter Dunstan as Robbie Cinesound Productions had intended to make a film of the timber industry since its...
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  • Let George Do It (1938 film) (category Cinesound Productions films)
    Wallace. It was the first of two films Wallace made for Ken G. Hall at Cinesound Productions, the other one being Gone to the Dogs (1939). Hall later called...
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  • Anthony (2009) Behind a Velvet Light Trap: A Filmmaker's Journey from Cinesound to Cannes. Prahran: Hardie Grant Books. ISBN 978-1-74066-7906 Caterson...
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  • company would make a co-production deal with Cinesound Productions but in August Sir Norman Rydge withdrew Cinesound. Ealing went ahead by themselves to make...
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  • Come Up Smiling (category Cinesound Productions films)
    comedian Will Mahoney and his wife Evie Hayes. It was the only feature from Cinesound Productions not directed by Ken G. Hall. Barney O'Hara is a performer...
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    mid-1933. In 1934 he made his only film, Strike Me Lucky, for Ken G. Hall at Cinesound. Film was not his medium, however, as rapport with a live audience was...
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  • Dad and Dave Come to Town (category Cinesound Productions films)
    Victor as Brown Raymond Longford as Policeman Hall made the movie because Cinesound Productions needed a guaranteed box office success. There had recently...
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    eight and drew 11. He reportedly also served in the merchant marines. Cinesound Productions were looking for someone with wrestling skills to play the...
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  • On Our Selection (1932 film) (category Cinesound Productions films)
    "there would have been no Cinesound without him". The cinematographer, Walter Sully, was a newsreel cameraman for Cinesound. It was the only feature he...
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  • (1938) and Gone to the Dogs (1939), were directed by Ken G. Hall for Cinesound Productions. Wallace's contributions to these films extended beyond his...
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  • Lovers and Luggers (category Cinesound Productions films)
    Aboriginal man The script was based on a 1928 novel by Gurney Slade, from whom Cinesound obtained the film rights in late 1936. In the novel, Daubenny travels...
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    and White Horse Inn (1936). He returned to films with the Australian Cinesound production It Isn't Done (1937), for which he also provided the original...
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