| Ups and Downs | |
| Director: | Roy Mack |
| Producer: | Vitaphone Corporation |
| Starring: | Hal Le Roy June Allyson |
| Music: | Sammy Cahn Saul Chaplin Cliff Hess |
| Cinematography: | Ray Foster |
| Editing: | Bert Frank |
| Distributor: | Warner Bros. |
| Runtime: | 21 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Ups and Downs (1937) is a short film directed by Roy Mack and starring Broadway dancer Hal Le Roy. It was released by Warner Bros. as part of its Broadway Brevities series of two-reel musical shorts, released in 1937 and 1938.[1]
The film was made in New York City, and was Bronx native June Allyson's first film for a major studio.[2]
An elevator operator Harry Smith (Hal Le Roy), who works in a luxury hotel, courts the hotel president's daughter June Dailey (June Allyson). She is engaged to another, but when her fiancé 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 Upsadaisy Elevator Company. June's fiancé returns and breaks off the engagement, thinking that his prospective father-in-law has lost everything on a worthless stock. However, 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.
Ups and Downs appears as a special feature on the 2005 DVD of the film Stage Door.[3]