Cast: Cab Calloway

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Ray Charles · Nat 'King' Cole · Cab Calloway

Plot Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood (Play Misty for Me, Bird, Unforgiven) explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical footage in...

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Steve McQueen · Edward G. Robinson · Karl Malden · Tuesday Weld

Plot A rising cardshark challenges a veteran player for the chance to be known as "The Man." Set in the swampy hedonism of New Orleans during the Great Depression, the card...

Direction John Landis

Cast Dan Aykroyd · John Belushi · Henry Gibson · Carrie Fisher

Plot Upon Jakes release from prison, the brothers are reunited and visit the orphanage they grew up in--only to discover that it is in danger of being shut down by the...

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Lena Horne · Bill Robinson · Katherine Dunham · Fats Waller

Plot The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.

Direction Jean-Christophe Rosé

Cast Muhammad Ali · Max Baer · Jack Benny · Trevor Berbick

Plot The BBC produced “Kings of The Ring – History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990” celebrates boxing’s marquee division. Comprehensive and nonjudgmental, it begins with Jess Willard’s victory over Jack Johnson in...

Direction Josh Binney

Cast Cab Calloway · Ida James · Jeni Le Gon · William Campbell

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

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast W.C. Fields · Peggy Hopkins Joyce · Rudy Vallee · Stuart Erwin

Plot Professor Wong has invented a television machine and invites everyone to see it at China's International House Hotel. Every time Tommy Nash attempts to wed his fiancée Carol Fortescue he...

Direction Allen Reisner

Cast Nat 'King' Cole · Eartha Kitt · Cab Calloway · Ella Fitzgerald

Plot 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...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Bing Crosby · Stuart Erwin · Leila Hyams · Sharon Lynn

Plot A radio-singer, Bing Hornsby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention...

Direction William Keighley · Busby Berkeley

Cast Al Jolson · Sybil Jason · Beverly Roberts · Edward Everett Horton

Plot The Singing Kid casts Jolie as neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson. Facing professional ruin when he loses his voice, Al heads to the country to regain his vocal timbre and...

Direction Fred Waller

Cast Cab Calloway

Plot This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.