Cab Calloway Movies

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A film by Chris Robinson.

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...

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...

Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".

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

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".

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 sings "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo".

Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".

"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,...

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...

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