The Beau Brummels (film)

The Beau Brummels
Vaudeville duo Shaw & Lee (Al Shaw and Sam Lee) in the 1928 Vitaphone short The Beau Brummels
Shaw & Lee in The Beau Brummels
StarringAl Shaw, Sam Lee (As Shaw & Lee)
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • September 22, 1928 (1928-09-22)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish, Yiddish

The Beau Brummels is a 1928 Vitaphone short film (Release 2686)[1] featuring vaudeville duo Al Shaw (Albert Schutzman, 1902–1985) and Sam Lee (Sam Levy, 1891–1980). It was the first film the team made together.[2] The film was selected to the United States National Film Registry in 2016 as "culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.[3][4]

  1. ^ Liebman, Roy (2003). Vitaphone Films, A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts. United States: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 194. ISBN 9781476609362.
  2. ^ Knipfel, Jim (May 29, 2015). "Shaw and Lee: Vaudeville's Loony Futurists". Ozy. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  3. ^ ""With "20,000 Leagues," the National Film Registry Reaches 700"". loc.gov. Library of Congress. December 14, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  4. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved September 16, 2020.