Smash Your Baggage (1932)

Directed by

Roy Mack

Genre

music

Country

United States

Runtime

10 min

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a short musical comedy from 1932. It features African American performers singing and dancing in a series of lively song and dance numbers.

livelyupbeatenergeticplayfulfast-pacedjoyfulmusicalpre-code

What happens

Smash Your Baggage is a 1932 Vitaphone pre-Code short musical comedy film released by Warner Bros., as part of their Vitaphone Varieties series on October 29, 1932. Directed by Roy Mack, the film features African American performers Carrie Marrier, Mabel Scott, the Smalls Paradise Entertainers and Lew Payton who co-wrote and performed in The Chocolate Dandies, a Broadway revue. Variety, in November 1932, described it as "one of those hectic song-and dance melanges". With a script written by A. Dorian Otvos, the film features Elmer Snowden and his Orchestra who perform the "Bugle Call Rag" and other tunes. The featured musicians (all uncredited) include Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Dicky Wells (trombone), Otto Hardwick (alto saxophone) and Sidney Catlett (drums). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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