''Pie, Pie Blackbird'' is a 1932

Vitaphone Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one th ...

pre-Code Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the Cinema of the United States, American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorshi ...

short comedy film released by

Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Di ...

on June 4, 1932, starring African American performers

Nina Mae McKinney Nina Mae McKinney (June 12, 1912 – May 3, 1967) was an American actress who worked internationally during the 1930s and in the postwar period in theatre, film and television, after beginning her career on Broadway and in Hollywood. Dubbed ...

, the

Nicholas Brothers The Nicholas Brothers were an entertainment act composed of biological brothers, Fayard Nicholas, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold Nicholas, Harold (1921–2000), who excelled in a variety of dance techniques, primarily between the 1930s ...

(in their film debut, albeit uncredited),

Eubie Blake James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983) was an American pianist and composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, he and his long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote ''Shuffle Along'', one of the first Bro ...

, and

Noble Sissle Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical ''Shuffle Along'' (1921), and its hit song "I'm Just Wild About Harry". Ea ...

. McKinney and the Nicholas Brothere were reunited in another Roy Mack musical short film written by A. Dorian Otvos, ''

The Black Network ''The Black Network'' is an American short musical film released in 1936 that was directed by Roy Mack and released through Vitaphone. It is extant. Synopsis Nina Mae McKinney plays the star performer of a radio show who must contend with the ...

'' (1936). A clip from the film is included in ''

That's Black Entertainment ''That's Black Entertainment'' is a 1989 documentary film starring African-American performers and featuring clips from black films from 1929–1957, narrated and directed by William Greaves. The clips are from the Black Cinema Collection of the ...

'' (1989) and the TV special ''It's Black Entertainment'' (2002). The full film is available on DVD for '' Hallelujah!'' (1929).

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* 1932 films 1932 comedy films Warner Bros. films American black-and-white films American comedy films Films directed by Roy Mack 1930s American films {{1930s-US-film-stub

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