This early vitaphone short is the only filmed record we have of the popular vaudeville team of Benny Fields and Blossom Seeley. Fields only made one other filmed appearance as a guest artist years later. Seeley did a lot of work both with her third husband Fields and as a single act. During my childhood I remember that Ed Sullivan had her on his show many times as a single even before her husband passed away in 1959 as he was in poor health in his last years.
Before she married Fields, Seeley was involved in a notorious scandal during the teen years when she left her first husband Joe Kane for star baseball pitcher Rube Marquard. That marriage broke up after about seven years and she married Fields whose only wife was Seeley.
Accompanied by a double piano team of Charles Bourne and Phil Ellis, Seeley and Fields were both good individual performers who happened to be married to each other and formed a great act. They do three songs in the snappy style of the day, Hello Bluebird, The Call Of The South, and In A Little Spanish Town.
A filmed record of a great act to be treasured.
Before she married Fields, Seeley was involved in a notorious scandal during the teen years when she left her first husband Joe Kane for star baseball pitcher Rube Marquard. That marriage broke up after about seven years and she married Fields whose only wife was Seeley.
Accompanied by a double piano team of Charles Bourne and Phil Ellis, Seeley and Fields were both good individual performers who happened to be married to each other and formed a great act. They do three songs in the snappy style of the day, Hello Bluebird, The Call Of The South, and In A Little Spanish Town.
A filmed record of a great act to be treasured.