Louis Prima Movies

A retrospective of rare performances highlighting the many phases of Prima's remarkable 50+ year career. Culled from the basements and shelves of TV...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Louis Prima Jr.

The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and...

Genre: Family

Cast: Bruce Reitherman

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyrone Power

Sam Butera and the Witnesses perform several Twist numbers to save a small New Orleans nightclub and raise the bail to get Louis Prima out of jail.

Genre: Music

Cast: Louis Prima

At a college party, a girl named Gay (Jill Corey) meets a guy named Tom (Paul Hampton) and they soon fall in love. Tom's bandmate, who goes by the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jill Corey

Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Louis Prima

Part of Paramount Headliner: Hollywood Star Reporter series

Genre: Music

Cast: Ted Husing

"Swing cat" Louis Prima and his jazz quartette play songs and accompany featured singers and dancers.

Genre: Music

Cast: Louis Prima

Meant primarily as TV fare, this standard, song-filled romantic drama stars Louis Prima as himself, and his real-life wife Keely Smith as Dorothy...

Genre: Music

Cast: Louis Prima

As a ploy to sign a championship college boxer to a contract, Big Boy enrolls in the college the youth is attending.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Durante

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Phil Regan

Compilation of DTV music videos from on The Disney Channel, combining tunes from the 1940s through the 1960s with footage of Disney animation.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Tennessee Ernie Ford

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner...

Genre: Western

Cast: Bing Crosby

Documentary about the mid-20th century Vegas bandleader and trumpeter Louis Prima, who showed the world what a rock show could be.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Louis Prima

Another nudist "documentary" from Doris Wishman. A print of this film has yet to surface.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Betty Andrews

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

Hapless driving instructor and former Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty, living in squalor near Hollywood, California, doesn't put up too much of a fight...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alan Arkin