Movies: Ralph Staub

Echo Mountain (1936) is a color musical short where they sing their songs in a mountains setting....

Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's estate where a lawn party is in progress. She brings along her friends and a whole caravan of gypsies take over the green, telling fortunes, singing a...

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening...

A Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made....

During the Great Depression, vaudeville has fallen on hard times. The Palace Theater may have to close its doors, unless the proprietor, William Jenkins, does something different, so he allows his 12-year-old son to put on a kiddie show that packs th...

Hollywood is a town that holds many memories of the movie business and the movies themselves, which has resulted in a town brimming with possibilities and wealth. But the town had very humble beginnings. Part of that history includes the professional...

Ralph Staub visits Hollywood's annual "Out of This World" charity-baseball game between two celebrity baseball teams....

Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the screen's most famous comics, ranging from Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle to W. C. Fields and Andy Clyde....

1944 short film nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Short Subject, One Reel...

Mickey Rooney, plugging his latest Columbia film, stops by Ralph Staub's editing room and film vault, and the two of them watch clips from Rooney's films, dating back as far as the Mickey McGuire comedies....

Seeing Hollywood, intimate glimpses of your favorite stars, at home, at work, and at play....

Ralph Staub zooms his Screen Snapshots camera in on many of the most famous newspaper comic-strip cartoonists and creators of the era. Notable in that all of the comic-strip characters referenced, with the exception of "Our Debbie" and "Smoky Stover"...

An assortment of musical acts parade before the camera; Joy Hodges and Pinky Tomlin sing; The Elderblooms, a group of ladies ranging in age from 63 to 76, sing a song; acrobatic dancer Lucille Page does a turn; and young Mary Ruth winds it up playing...

This MGM short provides brief glimpses of over sixty screen actors and actresses, all whom started in silent films....

The correct and full name of this short is "Screen Snapshots: Laguna,U.S.A." (Columbia production number 9852), in which director/producer Ralph Staub is out touring Laguna Beach. While there, he drops in at the Griffin Theatre where actors Brian Ahe...

Jack Benny narrates the Screen Snapshots that, utilizing archive footage, traces the career of Al Jolson, and rare off-stage shots of Jolson with stars such as Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor and Pat O'Brien....

Buster Keaton plays in a celebrity baseball game....

Players Aileen Pringle and Grant Withers are seen working on the set of Soldiers and Women at Columbia; Bessie Love and John Miljan are seen at MGM; Walt Disney is shown drawing Mickey Mouse; Eddie Cantor and his family arrive in Hollywood in prepara...

President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge visit Jack L. Warner and Mary Pickford in Hollywood; various players are glimpsed at work on the Columbia lot; stars turn out for a Hollywood Premiere....