Cab Calloway Movies

The legendary W.C. Fields is featured in rare behind-the-scenes footage and home movies at work and at play, along with hilarious scenes from some of...

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

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...

Featuring the opera star Leontyne Price, the concert baritone William Warfield, and the irrepressible jazz bandleader Cab Calloway, this virtually...

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

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

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...

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

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.

Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.

Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".

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

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

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 and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".

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

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

A film by Chris Robinson.

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

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