Cab Calloway Movies

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.

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

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

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...

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

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...

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 performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".

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

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 film by Chris Robinson.

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

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

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

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. ...

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

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

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...

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

A collection of home movies filmed from 1948-1951 featuring the legendary entertainer Cab Calloway and his wife Nuffie in their home on Long Beach...