Cab Calloway

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Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86. Full list of TV and Movie credits for Cab Calloway.. Born : 25th-Dec-1907

Movie Credits

The Cincinnati Kid

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Released : 15th-Oct-1965

The Blues Brothers

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.
Released : 16th-Jun-1980

Stormy Weather

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Released : 21st-Jul-1943

Cab Calloway Home Movies

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 and on their travels across both of the Americas.
Released : 3rd-Apr-1948

St. Louis Blues

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 politician, Gogo, a speakeasy singer, convinces Will to be her accompanist. Will is estranged from his father for many years while he writes and publishes many blues songs. At last the family is reunited when Gogo brings them to New York to see Will's music played by a symphony orchestra.
Released : 7th-Apr-1958

Hi-De-Ho

Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.
Released : 9th-May-1947

Snow-White

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.
Released : 1st-Aug-1933

The Old Man of the Mountain

Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.
Released : 4th-Aug-1933

The Singing Kid

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.
Released : 10th-Apr-1936

Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

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.
Released : 1st-Jan-1995

Sensations of 1945

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 Ginny's, dashes backstage, discards her veil, and then congratulates her friend on their successful publicity stunt. When Ginny's press agents, Gus Crane and his son Junior, visit their client backstage, she brags about her feat and chides them for not being more creative in promoting her. Horrified at Ginny's brashness, Junior, a conservative Harvard graduate, chastises her and leaves the room.
Released : 30th-Jun-1944

The Big Broadcast

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.
Released : 14th-Oct-1932

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
Released : 18th-May-1934

The Littlest Angel

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 is given the task of showing Michael the joys of Heaven and helping him find his place in the Hereafter.
Released : 6th-Dec-1969

The Skunk Song

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 the Mouse is riding in his motor car, while the skunk moans about how "nobody loves me" on account of him just being a "dirty old skunk".
Released : 16th-Aug-1942

Walking with My Honey

Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Walking with My Honey".
Released : 9th-Aug-1945

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

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" and "The Lady with the Fan" at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
Released : 24th-Aug-1934

Hi-De-Ho

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon passing by the apartment hears him singing and advises him go to his wife's gypsy tea room. As she reads the tea leaves, she sees situations which lead to Cab and his orchestra performing musical numbers.
Released : 20th-Feb-1937

Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party

Cab Calloway performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.
Released : 1st-Jan-1935

Night of 100 Stars III

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Released : 21st-May-1990

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

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 meteoric career. He was Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood's highest paid stars — and one of its most difficult, most rebellious and, when he wished, most charming.
Released : 2nd-Feb-1990

Cab Calloway Home Movie #5

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 tour of South America in 1951 including carnival and beach scenes in Montevideo, la Plaza Independencia, a horse racing track in Rio de Janeiro, and an airport in Puerto Rico.
Released : 1st-Jan-1948

Cab Calloway Home Movie #2

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. It consists of 16mm film, an original 400-foot film reel, and original 400-foot film can.
Released : 1st-Jan-1950

Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti

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 outdoor stage, the local townspeople, a local Haitian pottery market, and the Presidential Palace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince.
Released : 1st-Jan-1951

Cab Calloway Home Movie #1

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 year of 1951.
Released : 1st-Jan-1951

Cab Calloway Home Movie #4

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 codes indicating years of 1950 and 1955.
Released : 1st-Jan-1950

Cab Calloway Home Movie #3

A compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab and Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway during a tour of the Caribbean, with both Kodachrome and black-and-white film edge codes indicating the year 1951.
Released : 1st-Jan-1951

Minnie the Moocher

Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
Released : 11th-Mar-1932

Night of 100 Stars II

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 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Released : 10th-Mar-1985

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

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 gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."
Released : 26th-Nov-1937

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small Fry (1939), Dinah (1933), The Old Man of the Mountain (1933), and Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936).
Released : 27th-Apr-2024

The Harlem Renaissance

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the challenges many of the genre's artists faced when trying to gain recognition within conventional society. Included are anecdotes from musicians and historians, plus footage of performances and interviews with Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and more.
Released : 1st-Jan-2004

Everything's Fine

An experimental short film using only free archival footage.
Released : 26th-May-2020

Jazz Icons: 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 heart-stopping musical numbers. One of the great jazz artists of his time, Calloway was closely associated with the musical movement of 1930s and 40s Harlem, and was a regular performer at the famed Cotton Club.
Released : 1st-Jan-1934

International House

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 crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
Released : 27th-May-1933

We the Cats Shall Hep Ya

Cab Calloway sings "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya".
Released : 10th-Dec-1945

Ebony Parade

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

Rhythm and Blues Revue

Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films produced by Snader and Studio Telescriptions, with newly-filmed host segments by Willie Bryant. Originally 86 minutes, the "short" version available on public domain collections and websites is missing a reel
Released : 1st-Jan-1955

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

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 interviews accompany clips from groundbreaking shows and performances by entertainment pioneers that create a timeline of the portrayal of African Americans throughout TV history.
Released : 1st-Jan-2004

Blues in the Night

Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".
Released : 27th-Mar-1942

Minnie the Moocher

Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".
Released : 27th-Mar-1942

The Great Balloon Race

A film by Chris Robinson.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1977

Jazz Ball

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Released : 1st-Jan-1956

Cab Calloway: Sketches

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 Harlem’s famous Cotton Club as his home stage. Best known for his “Hi de hi de hi de ho” refrain from signature song “Minnie the Moocher,” portrayal of Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess (1952), and role in The Blues Brothers (1980), Cab influenced countless performers, including Michael and Janet Jackson, and many of today’s hip-hop artists.
Released : 27th-Feb-2012

Piano Blues

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 well as Dave Brubeck and Marcia Ball.
Released : 4th-Oct-2003

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Released : 19th-Apr-1975

Blowtop Blues

Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".
Released : 4th-Dec-1945

Foo a Little Bally-Hoo

Cab Calloway sings "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo".
Released : 4th-Dec-1945

I Was Here When You Left Me

Cab Calloway & Dotty Saulter perform "I Was Here When You Left Me".
Released : 4th-Dec-1945

The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'

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 Saturday Night Live skit to a best-selling album and then to a film. Director John Landis covers the difficult production, from the outrageous stunts to Belushi's disappearances from the set.
Released : 8th-Sep-1998

Caldonia

Louis Jordan, with his band, sings and performs the title song, "Caldonia,", and "Honey Child," "Tillie" and 'Buzz Me", wowing the jitter-buggers, zoot suits and bobby-soxers of the mid-1940s, all built around a wisp of a plot dealing with the difficulties of production in Harlem.
Released : 1st-Aug-1945

TV Credits

Hallmark Hall of Fame

- Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Released : 24th-Dec-1951

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self - Singer - The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Released : 20th-Jun-1948

Harry O

- After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.
Released : 12th-Sep-1974

The Mike Douglas Show

Self - The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
Released : 11th-Dec-1961

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self - The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Released : 20th-Jun-1948

The Pearl Bailey Show

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Released : 23rd-Jan-1971

The Love Boat

Lionel Bigelow - Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
Released : 24th-Sep-1977

What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest - Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
Released : 2nd-Feb-1950

Great Performances

Self - The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Released : 28th-Jan-1971

Kraft Music Hall

Self - Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice of Kraft", Ed Herlihy.
Released : 8th-Oct-1958

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Cab Calloway

Movie Credits

The Cincinnati Kid

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.Released : 15th-Oct-1965

The Blues Brothers

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.Released : 16th-Jun-1980

Stormy Weather

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.Released : 21st-Jul-1943

Cab Calloway Home Movies

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 and on their travels across both of the Americas.Released : 3rd-Apr-1948

St. Louis Blues

Hi-De-Ho

Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.Released : 9th-May-1947

Snow-White

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.Released : 1st-Aug-1933

The Old Man of the Mountain

Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.Released : 4th-Aug-1933

The Singing Kid

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.Released : 10th-Apr-1936

Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

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.Released : 1st-Jan-1995

Sensations of 1945

The Big Broadcast

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.Released : 14th-Oct-1932

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.Released : 18th-May-1934

The Littlest Angel

The Skunk Song

Walking with My Honey

Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Walking with My Honey".Released : 9th-Aug-1945

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

Hi-De-Ho

Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party

Cab Calloway performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.Released : 1st-Jan-1935

Night of 100 Stars III

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.Released : 21st-May-1990

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

Cab Calloway Home Movie #5

Cab Calloway Home Movie #2

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. It consists of 16mm film, an original 400-foot film reel, and original 400-foot film can.Released : 1st-Jan-1950

Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti

Cab Calloway Home Movie #1

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 year of 1951.Released : 1st-Jan-1951

Cab Calloway Home Movie #4

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 codes indicating years of 1950 and 1955.Released : 1st-Jan-1950

Cab Calloway Home Movie #3

A compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab and Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway during a tour of the Caribbean, with both Kodachrome and black-and-white film edge codes indicating the year 1951.Released : 1st-Jan-1951

Minnie the Moocher

Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.Released : 11th-Mar-1932

Night of 100 Stars II

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small Fry (1939), Dinah (1933), The Old Man of the Mountain (1933), and Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936).Released : 27th-Apr-2024

The Harlem Renaissance

Everything's Fine

An experimental short film using only free archival footage.Released : 26th-May-2020

Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway

International House

We the Cats Shall Hep Ya

Cab Calloway sings "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya".Released : 10th-Dec-1945

Ebony Parade

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

Rhythm and Blues Revue

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

Blues in the Night

Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".Released : 27th-Mar-1942

Minnie the Moocher

Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".Released : 27th-Mar-1942

The Great Balloon Race

A film by Chris Robinson.Released : 3rd-Jan-1977

Jazz Ball

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.Released : 1st-Jan-1956

Cab Calloway: Sketches

Piano Blues

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.Released : 19th-Apr-1975

Blowtop Blues

Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".Released : 4th-Dec-1945

Foo a Little Bally-Hoo

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Released : 15th-Oct-1965

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.
Released : 16th-Jun-1980

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Released : 21st-Jul-1943

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 and on their travels across both of the Americas.
Released : 3rd-Apr-1948

Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.
Released : 9th-May-1947

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.
Released : 1st-Aug-1933

Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.
Released : 4th-Aug-1933

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.
Released : 10th-Apr-1936

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.
Released : 1st-Jan-1995

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.
Released : 14th-Oct-1932

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
Released : 18th-May-1934

Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Walking with My Honey".
Released : 9th-Aug-1945

Cab Calloway performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.
Released : 1st-Jan-1935

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Released : 21st-May-1990

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. It consists of 16mm film, an original 400-foot film reel, and original 400-foot film can.
Released : 1st-Jan-1950

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 year of 1951.
Released : 1st-Jan-1951

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 codes indicating years of 1950 and 1955.
Released : 1st-Jan-1950

A compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab and Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway during a tour of the Caribbean, with both Kodachrome and black-and-white film edge codes indicating the year 1951.
Released : 1st-Jan-1951

Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
Released : 11th-Mar-1932

A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small Fry (1939), Dinah (1933), The Old Man of the Mountain (1933), and Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936).
Released : 27th-Apr-2024

An experimental short film using only free archival footage.
Released : 26th-May-2020

Cab Calloway sings "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya".
Released : 10th-Dec-1945

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

Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".
Released : 27th-Mar-1942

Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".
Released : 27th-Mar-1942

A film by Chris Robinson.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1977

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Released : 1st-Jan-1956

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Released : 19th-Apr-1975

Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".
Released : 4th-Dec-1945

Cab Calloway sings "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo".
Released : 4th-Dec-1945

Cab Calloway & Dotty Saulter perform "I Was Here When You Left Me".
Released : 4th-Dec-1945