Will Mahoney (1940)

Soundtrack is currently missing for this item. Titles read: Pathetone presents WILL MAHONEY The Famous Comedian in The Birth Of A Song. Location of events unknown probably Australia or New Zealand. Brief shots of Australian or New Zealand soldiers marching along a street in some kind of night time parade. C, U of a sheet of music It s Up To You And Me by Will Mahoney and Bob Geraghty. Will and Bob are seen in the studio; Bob at the piano and Will standing beside it. They seem to be working on the song. A darkhaired girl, Evie Hayes, comes in and sings the song for them while the pianist accompanies her. It looks like a rather jaunty flag waving wartime number Will jigs about and does a Nazi salute by mistake The three of them stand before camera and sing; dissolve into shot of them marching along at the head of a line of Australian or New Zealand soldiers on a country road. Shots of Union Jack, French and Australian (or New Zealand ) flags are superimposed this shot at the e