Film and Sound in the Thirties and 'Thirties

The kings of motion picture comedy in the first decade after the introduction of sound have to be the marks brothers. They honed their mixture of song music and wise cracking skits in vaudeville, perfected it on broadway. The biggest name in musicals in the thirties was a dancer, fred a stare. He did a legendarily bad screen test for r k o radio pictures. But he would become one of the biggest stars of the era after he teamed up with ginger rogers. Together they made nine hugely successful films for r k O in the space of five years.