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| director = Hal Yates
| producer = George Bilson
| writer =
| screenplay = Hal Law
Hal Yates
Leo Solomon
Joseph Quillan
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| starring = Jack Paar
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| music = Constantin Bakaleinikoff
| cinematography = Robert de Grasse
Vincent J. Farrar
George Diskant
| editing = Les Millbrook
Edward W. Williams
| studio = RKO Radio Pictures
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| runtime = 59 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
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'Variety Time' is a 1948 American variety film directed by Hal Yates. The film is a compilation of musical numbers from various RKO features and comedy footage from RKO short subjects. Future 'Tonight Show' host Jack Paar appears as master of ceremonies, offering comic monologues, introducing the assorted clips, and playing straight man for Hans Conried in a dialect-comedy sketch.
The previously filmed sequences include comedy stars Leon Errol and Edgar Kennedy, a 'Flicker Flashbacks' silent-movie revival, and musical numbers with dance act Jesse and James (in an out-take from the 1944 musical 'Show Business'); Lynn, Royce and Vanya in a specialty from 'Seven Days Leave', Frankie Carle and his orchestra in a clip from 'Riverboat Rhythm', and Miguelito Valdes in a scene from 'Pan-Americana'.
The film was inexpensively produced (only $51,000 for the entire feature) and showed a profit of $132,000,Richard B, Jewell with Vernon Harbin, 'The RKO Story', Arlington House, London, 1982, . prompting RKO to compile three more "clip shows," 'Make Mine Laughs' (1949), 'Footlight Varieties' (1951), and 'Merry Mirthquakes' (1953).
References
Category:RKO Pictures films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1948 musical films
Category:1948 films
Category:American musical films
Category:1940s American films
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