Variety Time
| Variety Time | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | George Diskant |
| Edited by | Les Millbrook Edward W. Williams |
| Music by | Constantin Bakaleinikoff |
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Running time | 59 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Variety Time is a 1948 American variety film directed by
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
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,[2] prompting RKO to compile three more "clip shows," Make Mine Laughs (1949), Footlight Varieties (1951), and Merry Mirthquakes (1953).
References
- ^ "Variety Time: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ISBN 0-517-546566.