Smash Your Baggage

Smash Your Baggage is a 1932 Vitaphone pre-Code short musical comedy film released by Warner Bros., as part of their Vitaphone Varieties series on October 29, 1932. Directed by Roy Mack,[1] the film features African American performers Carrie Marrier, Mabel Scott, the Smalls Paradise Entertainers and Lew Payton who co-wrote and performed in The Chocolate Dandies, a Broadway revue. Variety, in November 1932, described it as "one of those hectic song-and dance melanges".[1]

Smash Your Baggage
Directed byRoy Mack
Written byA. Dorian Otvos
StarringSmalls Paradise Entertainers (only credited participants)
Carrie Marrier
Lew Payton
Mabel Scott
Elmer Snowden Orchestra
CinematographyEdwin B. DuPar
Music byElmer Snowden
Elmer Snowden Orchestra
Distributed byWarner Brothers
Release date
  • October 29, 1932 (1932-10-29)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

With a script written by A. Dorian Otvos, the film features Elmer Snowden and his Orchestra who perform the "Bugle Call Rag" and other tunes. The featured musicians (all uncredited) include Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Dicky Wells (trombone), Otto Hardwick (alto saxophone) and Sidney Catlett (drums).[2]

Plot

A group of African American redcaps at a railroad station perform musical numbers to raise donations to support a sick colleague.[3]

References
  1. "Smash You Baggage". Variety. November 15, 1932. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  2. "Smash Your Baggage". Library of Congress. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  3. "Smash Your Baggage". TCM. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
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