MISC. VALLEE HOME MOVIES #1

INCOMPLETE CS VO PROFILING TELEVISION PERSONALITY MORTON DOWNEY JR. AND HIS BRAND OF TABLOID TELEVISION. 10:00:01:10 VS of Downey greeting people before entering a television studio. Soundbites of people who say they like the show. VS of the audience applauding Downey during a taping of the Morton Downey Jr Show. Blank to End. CI: PERSONALITIES: DOWNEY, MORTON JR. INDUSTRIES: TELEVISION.

Mary Margaret McBride and Morton Downey sing at her 15th Anniversary in Radio Celebration at Yankee Stadium.

Morton Downey, Jr.

Sean Morton Downey Jr. (December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001) was an American television talk show host and actor who pioneered the "trash TV" format in the late-1980s on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show

Interview

00:00:00:00 - RX 23 MORTON DOWNEY JR. (0:00) /

Full titles read: "MORTON DOWNEY - The famous American, Radio, Film and Recording Star. Filmed at Cafe de Paris, London." <br/> <br/>Intertitle reads: "Midnight - and though suburban roads may be quiet and lonely, dancing feet throng the floor here - (To the music of Jack Harris and his boys)." <br/> <br/>Very Good shots of the guests and stars dancing to the jazz music of Jack Harris. There are numerous celebrities at the venue including the film star Thelma Todd, Nelson Keys, Dorothy Dickson, Ruth Roland and the composer Horatio Nicholls. Good L/S's and M/S's of Morton Downey sitting at piano singing 'Stormy Weather'

Morton Downey, Rudy Vallee, and Jessica Dragonette sing on the US Capitol steps in 1933

Morton Downey Sr. sings three songs:<p><b>ROSE OF TRALLE</b> Wistful Irish Girls, look and smile at camera.<p><b> IT'S THE SAME OLD SHILLELAGH</b> Couples do Irish dance in traditional costumes.<p><b>WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING</b> Morton Downey plays the piano and sings, smiling Irish girls smile for the camera.

b&w - musical short - That's How I Spell Ireland - Morton Downey - soundie - theatrical curtains part, open - Irish tenor sits at piano with boy - Irish maiden in period costume flirts at camera, sits in window sill - c/u female walks through bushes and smiles at camera wears western outfit - c/u male singer faces camera exterior - c/u pretty lady leans against wall, c/u woman sews or embroiders, looks to camera - man or father sings to boy or son at piano

MORTON DOWNEY - STAND UP RE: ROSE OF TRALEE, LONG WAY TO TIPPARARY, AND MY FATHER'S HOUSE WITH THE DOWNEY IRISH CLUB CAST

Interview

Short, tiny older woman, white hair - talking head - in line waiting to get into the Downey show, emphatically enthusiastically and with a thick New York accent, professes her love for Morton Downey

/n00:00:00:00 Guests: Morton Downey Jr, Liv Ullmann. (:00)/n

Titles read: "NOW Pathe Pictorial has pleasure in presenting - THE JESTERS - The famous American Comedy Team in their burlesque of American Broadcasting". <br/> <br/>Pathe Studio, London. <br/> <br/>The Jesters, three men in evening dress accompanied by piano, give their "Impersonation of a few of the popular American radio stars singing their respective theme songs". <br/> <br/>They sing the following numbers: 'When The Blue Of The Night...' in style of Bing Crosby, 'Carolina Moon' in style of Morton Downey, 'You Call It Madness' in the style of Russ (Ross?) Columbo, The Romeo of Song, 'When The Moon Comes Over The Mountains' in style of Katie Smith (?), unidentified song done as 'Scram Sam' (?), 'Marta' in style of Arthur Tracy - "The Street Cleaner" and 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You' in the style of The Mills Brothers. <br/> <br/>Throughout these numbers other members of the group introduce radio commercials, with suitable puns for, amongst other things, Beechams Pills, Chesterfields, Colgate Toothpaste etc. During the last number, the group also impersonate trumpets playing. <br/> <br/>This is duplicate of item in Pathe Sound Pictorial PSP 865 - see separate record for details.

US Vice President Charles Curtis honors popular radio stars in Washington, DC, in 1933

Omar Bradley chats with Morton Downey and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.

b&w - newsreel - mos - Crescent City film - movie star junket - celebrities travel by airplane - Ann Richards - Morton Downey Jr. interior private airplane - c/u young man sips foam from champagne bottle top - c/u female celeb wears hair in pin curls, sips beverage from cup, c/u man seated in corner by round window - c/u young woman, celebrity, w/ hair in pin curls looks to camera, makes funny face w/ eyes - young man tries to dry his hands after handling wet champagne bottle older woman walks into passenger cabin from cockpit - joins man and woman w/ pin curls older woman shows younger woman various tablets or pills (drugs) she gets from her cosmetic travel bag woman takes tablet and sips other woman's beverage (possibly alcohol and drug mixture) older woman shows her stash of fifth of whiskey she has in paper bag and makes funny gestures as if she would never drink it aerial pov, part of airplane visible - aerial over land, water - pov from cockpit window, pilot pov - window wiper visible (not working) - interior private airplane cabin - passengers, curtains on windows - aerial shot over rocky coast - pilot pov movpov straight ahead on landing strip - w/s exterior private plane on ground, passengers exit 10-12 seater plane on tarmac wider shot of parked cars, plane b/g - c/u man carries clothing from plane, w/s airport field, brief landing

AL SHARPTON SAYS JUDGE ALCEE HASTINGS IS ON TRIAL BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. HASTINGS IS UNDER AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY BY THE SENATE.

OC / 280 / SOF / MAG / SIL VS MR SEAN MORTON DOWNEY, FORMER FINANCE COMMISSION FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEES COMMISSION ON DELEGATE SELECTION AND PARTY STRUCTURE, ANNOUNCING HIS CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. DISCUSSES HIS PLATFORM, REASONS FOR RUNNING, ETC. COMMENTS ON SUPPORT FOR ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT. CI: PERSONALITIES: DOWNEY, MORTON.

[Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 1)