Cab Calloway Movies

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Steve McQueen

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.

Genre: Music

Cast: Dan Aykroyd

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lena Horne

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nat King Cole

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Mae Questel

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Cab Calloway

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Al Jolson

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eddie Borden

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Eleanor Powell

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Cab Calloway

Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth...

Genre: Family

Cast: Johnny Whitaker

Cab Calloway and The Cabaliers are singing about how The Big Bad Wolf only talks about his Disney money, Felix the Cat is fat and rich, and Mickey...

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cab Calloway

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hank Aaron

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve McQueen

A compilation reel of silent, black-and-white home movies featuring Cab Calloway and his family at their home in Long Island, NY and at the beach. ...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

A 16mm black-and-white, silent home movie film by Cab and Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway during a tour of the Caribbean, with film edge code indicating a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

A compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab and Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway during a tour of the Caribbean, with both Kodachrome and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

A compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab Calloway during a tour of South America, with both Kodachrome and black-and-white film edge...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Allen

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

A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Margie Hines

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

An experimental short film using only free archival footage.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

This riveting collection of jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway's most electrifying performances brings to life a bygone era of swinging jazz and...

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Cast: Cab Calloway

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peggy Hopkins Joyce

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Count Basie

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lionel Hampton

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Muhammad Ali

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

A film by Chris Robinson.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cab Calloway

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

A singer, dancer, and bandleader, Cab led one of the most popular African American big bands during the jazz and swing eras of the 1930s-40s, with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ray Charles

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ossie Davis

Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dan Aykroyd

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Louis Jordan