Cast: Louis Armstrong

Direction Johan Grimonprez

Cast Louis Armstrong · Dizzy Gillespie · Abbey Lincoln · Max Roach

Synopsis Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · June Allyson · Harry Morgan · Barton MacLane

Synopsis James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller's life, but it certainly is a pleasant example of the...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Barbra Streisand · Walter Matthau · Michael Crawford · Marianne McAndrew

Synopsis Film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Concerns itself with Dolly Levi, a New York-based matchmaker who merrily arranges things... like furniture and daffodils and lives. A widow, she has found herself in love with a "half-a-millionaire" Yonkers merchant named...

Direction Shannah Laumeister

Cast Louis Armstrong · George Avakian · Brigitte Bardot · Zak Barnett

Synopsis In the unconventional documentary Becoming Bert Stern, the original mad-man photographer reveals himself for the first time...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Sidney Poitier · Diahann Carroll

Synopsis Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris. Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate American jazzmen working in a Left Bank nightclub in Paris. Ram is there hoping to attain stature as a musician, and Eddie has...

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Bing Crosby · Grace Kelly · Frank Sinatra · Celeste Holm

Synopsis C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate. She is on the verge of marrying a man blander and safer than Dex, who tries to win Tracy's heart again. Mike...

Direction Melville Shavelson

Cast Danny Kaye · Barbara Bel Geddes · Louis Armstrong · Harry Guardino

Synopsis Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Jack Benny · Ida Lupino · Richard Arlen · Gail Patrick

Synopsis Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an advertising man trying to hold on to his biggest client, a silver company run by Alan Townshend...

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Busby Berkeley

Cast Ethel Waters · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Lena Horne · Louis Armstrong

Synopsis In this musical, Little Joe, an inveterate gambler, promises his wife Petunia he'll reform and confess his sins at church, but he slips out the side door to play craps at the Paradise club; he's shot and brought home with...

Direction László Kardos

Cast Mickey Rooney · Sally Forrest · William Demarest · James Craig

Synopsis Mickey Rooney is cast as Stanley Maxton, an aspiring drummer who has the misfortune to fall within the orbit of bookie Sunny Johnson (James Craig). Out of the goodness of his heart, Stanley introduces aspiring actress June Tafford (Sally Forrest)...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Ralph Meeker · Leslie Caron · Kurt Kasznar · Gilbert Roland

Synopsis In New Orleans, prizefighter Socks Barbarrosa suddenly runs out of the ring before his title bout, and swears he'll never fight again. He gives no reason for his strange actions. His girl friend Angela sticks by him, but her father,...

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Arturo de Córdova · Dorothy Patrick · Marjorie Lord · Irene Rich

Direction Maurice Labro · Giorgio Simonelli

Cast Georges Guétary · Luis Mariano · Nilla Pizzi · Line Renaud

Synopsis Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones. He is saved by chance in...

Direction Leo Penn

Cast Sammy Davis Jr. · Louis Armstrong · Ossie Davis · Cicely Tyson

Synopsis A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

Direction Aubrey Scotto

Cast Louis Armstrong

Synopsis A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he’s King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs ‘I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You...

Direction Dave Fleischer

Cast Louis Armstrong

Synopsis Koko and Bimbo take Betty Boop on a jungle safari, where they run afoul of a cannibal tribe caricaturing Louis Armstrong and his band members.

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Bing Crosby · Mary Carlisle · Beatrice Lillie · Andy Devine

Synopsis Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

Direction Charles F. Haas

Cast Steve Cochran · Mamie Van Doren · Ray Danton · Fay Spain

Synopsis A detective is assigned to track down and capture a crazed serial rapist.

Direction Harald Philipp

Cast Gert Fröbe · Joachim Fuchsberger · Günter Pfitzmann · Elke Sommer