Cab Calloway Movies

Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but...

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.

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

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

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

Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".

A film by Chris Robinson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A collection of home movies filmed from 1948-1951 featuring the legendary entertainer Cab Calloway and his wife Nuffie in their home on Long Beach...

Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".

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...

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

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

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

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...