| Variety Time | |
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| Directed by | Hal Yates |
| Screenplay by | Hal Law Hal Yates Leo Solomon Joseph Quillan |
| Produced by | George Bilson |
| Starring | Jack Paar |
| Cinematography | Robert de Grasse Vincent J. Farrar George Diskant |
| Edited by | Les Millbrook Edward W. Williams |
| Music by | Constantin Bakaleinikoff |
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Running time | 59 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Variety Time is a 1948 American variety film directed byHal Yates. The film is a compilation of musical numbers from various RKO features and comedy footage from RKO short subjects. FutureTonight Show hostJack Paar appears as master of ceremonies, offering comic monologues, introducing the assorted clips, and playing straight man forHans Conried in a dialect-comedy sketch.
The previously filmed sequences include comedy starsLeon Errol andEdgar Kennedy, aFlicker Flashbacks silent-movie revival, and musical numbers with dance act Jesse and James (in an out-take from the 1944 musicalShow Business); Lynn, Royce and Vanya in a specialty fromSeven Days Leave,Frankie Carle and his orchestra in a clip fromRiverboat Rhythm, andMiguelito Valdes in a scene fromPan-Americana.
The film was inexpensively produced (only $51,000 for the entire feature) and showed a profit of $132,000,[2] prompting RKO to compile three more "clip shows,"Make Mine Laughs (1949),Footlight Varieties (1951), andMerry Mirthquakes (1953).