Cab Calloway Movies

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at...

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.

Cab Calloway performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never...

A film by Chris Robinson.

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl...

Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in...

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house...

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the...

"Festival of Hearts" is the name of the new pop music show by popular DJ Camillo. He came up with the idea by chance. Marcel, a young bank employee,...

Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth...

The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.

Compilation reel of 16mm color home movies of Cab Calloway and his family in Long Island, New York at Easter. The film also has footage of Calloway's...

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.