Cab Calloway Movies

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington)...

The Stories Behind the Making of The Blues Brothers is an hour- long documentary featuring every participant from the film. Star and co-writer Dan...

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

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...

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon...

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.

Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.

Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films...

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...

Cab Calloway sings "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya".

A singer, dancer, and bandleader, Cab led one of the most popular African American big bands during the jazz and swing eras of the 1930s-40s, with...

From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a...

Louis Jordan, with his band, sings and performs the title song, "Caldonia,", and "Honey Child," "Tillie" and 'Buzz Me", wowing the jitter-buggers,...

Cab Calloway sings "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo".

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

Mantan Moreland hosts a series of filmed song, dance and band numbers by various artists, mostly released previously as individual "soundies".

Cab Calloway & Dotty Saulter perform "I Was Here When You Left Me".

Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Walking with My Honey".

Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".

16mm silent color film shot by Cab Calloway during his 1951 tour in Haiti. This film features footage of Cab Calloway and his band performing on an...