Pie, Pie Blackbird is a 1932 Vitaphone pre-Code short comedy film released by Warner Bros. on June 4, 1932, starring African American performers Nina Mae McKinney, the Nicholas Brothers (in their film debut,[1] albeit uncredited), Eubie Blake, and Noble Sissle.
[2] McKinney and the Nicholas Brothere were reunited in another Roy Mack musical short film written by A. Dorian Otvos, The Black Network (1936).
On the last line, the camera zooms in on the pie, which opens to reveal the musicians, dressed as chefs, conducted by Eubie Blake.
An iris in and out reveals Miss Nina in evening dress, sitting on the piano, singing.
Cut to Miss Nina and the children watching in the kitchen, then back to the pie and the band performing “I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You”.