Fats Waller Movies

A cartoon elephant undone by his large feet

Genre: Animation

Cast: Fats Waller

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 Jazz pianist is kidnapped at gun point late one night in Harlem 3rd year Animated film made at the university of Lincoln. Based around a true...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fats Waller

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Howard Ashman

A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sothern

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

Compilation of extracts from 'blue' movies from 1900 to the 1940s intercut with clips of popular music and dancing, and excerpts from newsreels and...

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Cast: Nat King Cole

Fats Waller is at the piano with a bunch of pretty female dancers, one of whom that sits next to him at the keys is Vivian Brown. He tells her he...

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Cast: Fats Waller

Fats Waller performs his best song and mugs for the camera with many a sly, risqué comment in this 1941 Soundie. A rare and impeccable record...

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Cast: Fats Waller

The one and only Fats Waller with Myra Johnson performing his classic song The Joint Is Jumpin' from 1941.

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Cast: Fats Waller

Fats and the gang are cutting it up on this 1941 music video of his 1939 hit “Your Feet’s Too Big”. Fats was one of the giants of...

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Cast: Fats Waller

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

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Cast: Phil Baker

This Joint Is Jumpin' celebrates the life and work of the great Fats Waller. Fats started playing church organ at age 10 and his all-action musical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fats Waller

A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vanessa Williams