Three short notes
Three short notes is a American Musical film of Richard Thorpe turned in 1950.
Synopsis
Bert Kalmar (Fred Astaire), dancer and conjurer, must give up the scene after a nasty fracture of the knee. It is its meeting with an unknown pianist, Harry Ruby (Red Skelton), which will enable him to go up the slope. From this meeting is born a sincere friendship punctuated tops and bottom, and leads, after ten years of collaboration, to the creation of a song “Three little words”.
Comments
This film is in fact the filmed biography of two famous specialists in the light comedy: Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.
Data sheet
- Title: Three short notes
- original Title: Three little words
- Realization: Richard Thorpe
- Scenario: George Welle
- Production: Jack Cummings
- Director of the photography: Harry Jackson
- Decorations: Cedric Gibbons and Urie Mc Cleary
- Choreography: Hermes Side
- Music: Harry Ruby
- Left: 1950
- Country of origin: the United States
- Kind: Musical film
- Studio: M.G.M.
- Turned in: Technicolor
- Lasted: 103 minutes
Distribution
- Fred Astaire: Bert Kalmar
- Red Skelton : Harry Ruby
- Vera Ellen : Jessie Brown Kalmar
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