Ruth Etting Movies

Vaudeville is a 1997 PBS documentary under its American Masters program. Using film clips and photos, the art and history of vaudeville (1890-1930s)...

A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of...

Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.

Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

Old Lace is a 1931 Musical short.

Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel.

Miss Etting plays herself, and the clever opening sequence conveys two messages: 1) that she's very much in demand, and 2) that the grind of stardom...

A canned fish tycoon wants a smash hit song to sell his fish. Ruth Etting is the perfect singer - but can they find a song worthy of her?

A Ruth Etting musical short. The songs - "Smiles", "I'll Follow You", "My Melancholy Baby" and "When My Baby Smiles at Me".

Ruth Etting is the star attraction on the Albertson Travel Agency radio show. When her producers learn that her recordings are on another program at...

Ruth Etting sings "Ay, Ay, Ay" in this 1935 film with Mario Álvarez, along with other songs.

Ruth Etting is looking to get away from the glare of publicity for a few days so she heads to the countryside and takes a room in a small...

Ruth Eton (Ruth Etting), a singer with a traveling show troupe, is engaged to the troupe manager, Joe Grant (Edward Leiter), but when Ruth's younger...

Anita Ragusa, the daughter of a costume company owner, delivers a dress for a costume ball at the last minute. The snobbish customer doesn't like the...

In this 100% fictional-plot short a fictional freshman, played by an actor named Don Tomkins), becomes smitten with and writes letters to a singer,...

Ruth Etting shows how she make a perfect three minute egg by singing a song with a length of exactly three minutes.

A girl who works in a music store discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her intended husband already has a wife.

Singer Ruth Eton is looking for some new songs to use in her act. Don Hopkins is a songwriter who wants to break into the business, but knows it is...

Singer Ruth Etting sings two popular tunes of 1929. The whole short is filmed in one take.