Cab Calloway Movies

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

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...

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

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

A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small...

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.

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...

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

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

A film by Chris Robinson.

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...

Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".

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

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

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...

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

Cab Calloway sings "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya".

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...

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

Cab Calloway performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.