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 staye...

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...

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 yea...

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-wh...

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...

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...

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 ou...

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

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 t...

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 g...

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

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

An experimental short film using only free archival footage.

This riveting collection of jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway's most electrifying performances brings to life a bygone era of swinging jazz and...

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...

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

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

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

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

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