Cab Calloway Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.

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

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

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

A compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab and Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway during a tour of the Caribbean, with both Kodachrome and...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

A film by Chris Robinson.

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

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

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