Movies: Cab Calloway
- 1980
The Blues Brothers (1980)
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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....
- 1965
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
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An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game....
- 1933
International House (1933)
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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 medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire cra...
- 1933
Snow-White (1933)
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Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest....
- 2003
Piano Blues (2003)
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Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical footage in addition to interviews and performances by such living legends as Pinetop Perkins and Jay McShann, as we...
- 1932
Minnie the Moocher (1932)
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Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song....
- 1943
Stormy Weather (1943)
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Dancing great Bill Williamson sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: Just back from World War I, he meets lovely singer Selina Rogers at a soldiers' ball and promises to come back to her when he "gets to be somebody." Ye...
- 1933
The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
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Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty....
- 1944
Sensations of 1945 (1944)
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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 her. After Ginny collapses and is taken to her dressing room, the woman, Julia Westcolt, a friend of Gin...
- 1995
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995)
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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 popular icon since the 1930s....
- 1934
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934)
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A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons....
- 1934
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
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This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Zaz-zuh-zaz...
- 1985
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
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This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 S...
- 1958
St. Louis Blues (1958)
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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 he can't stay away from the music of the streets and workers. After he writes a theme song for a local...
- 1969
The Littlest Angel (1969)
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Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthday. Michael doesn't fully understand where he is, or why he's there. A guardian angel named Patience ...
- 1936
The Singing Kid (1936)
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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 Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines....
- 1998
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' (1998)
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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 Aykroyd explains how a joke that he and best friend John Belushi shared with friends evolved from a Sat...
- 2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
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Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and historians discuss the image of black America on television from Amos and Andy to the present day. The...
- 1990
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1990)
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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 stayed far from trouble. Then he discovered acting — and the woman who would be with him for most of his ...
- 1932
The Big Broadcast (1932)
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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....