| Ups and Downs | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Roy Mack |
| Produced by | Vitaphone Corporation |
| Written by | Jack Henley Cyrus Wood |
| Starring | Hal Le Roy June Allyson |
| Music by | Sammy Cahn Saul Chaplin Cliff Hess |
| Cinematography | Ray Foster |
| Editing by | Bert Frank |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | 1937 |
| Running time | 21 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Ups and Downs is a 1937 film released by Warner Brothers Pictures. It was part of Warner's "Broadway Brevities" series of 2-reel musical shorts (1937 and 1938), starred Broadway dancer Hal Le Roy and was directed by Roy Mack.[1] It was made in New York, and was Bronx native June Allyson's first film for a major studio.[2]
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An elevator operator (Harry Smith, played by dancer Hal Le Roy) in a luxury hotel courts the hotel president's daughter (June Daily, played by a platinum-blonde June Allyson). She is engaged to another, but when her fiance leaves on a business trip, Harry asks her to join him for dinner.
During dinner, Harry is introduced to her father, who misinterprets Harry's remarks about elevators as being a tip to invest in the Ups and Downs Elevator Company. June's fiance returns and breaks off the engagement, thinking that his prospective father-in-law has lost everything on a worthless stock. But the investment turns out to be wildly profitable, Harry and June are engaged, and the film ends with them tap-dancing away in a production number dominated by a giant stock ticker machine.