Cab Calloway Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

"Festival of Hearts" is the name of the new pop music show by popular DJ Camillo. He came up with the idea by chance. Marcel, a young bank employee,...

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

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

Featuring the opera star Leontyne Price, the concert baritone William Warfield, and the irrepressible jazz bandleader Cab Calloway, this virtually...

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

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

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

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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.

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

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

Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".

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

A film by Chris Robinson.

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...