Cab Calloway
Birthday: 1907-12-25
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
Biography: Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.
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The Cincinnati Kid
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time mast...
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The Blues Brothers
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...
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Stormy Weather
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the...
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Cab Calloway Home Movies
A collection of home movies filmed from 1948-1951 featuring the legendary entertainer Cab Calloway a...
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St. Louis Blues
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for h...
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Hi-De-Ho
Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series ...
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The Old Man of the Mountain
Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and...
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The Singing Kid
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperatin...
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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty B...
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Sensations of 1945
As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of...
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The Big Broadcast
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to h...
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Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from thr...
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The Littlest Angel
Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds h...
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The Skunk Song
Cab Calloway and The Cabaliers are singing about how The Big Bad Wolf only talks about his Disney mo...
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Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ...
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Hi-De-Ho
Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, preten...
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Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
Cab Calloway performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug ...
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Night of 100 Stars III
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....
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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on h...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #5
Compilation reel of 16mm color home movies of Cab Calloway and his family in Long Island, New York a...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #2
A compilation reel of silent, black-and-white home movies featuring Cab Calloway and his family at t...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti
16mm silent color film shot by Cab Calloway during his 1951 tour in Haiti. This film features footag...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #1
A 16mm black-and-white, silent home movie film by Cab and Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway during a tour of t...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #4
A compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab Calloway during a tour of South America, with b...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #3
A compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab and Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway during a tour of th...
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Minnie the Moocher
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singin...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do...
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Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somew...
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The Harlem Renaissance
Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the sou...
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Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
This riveting collection of jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway's most electrifying performances...
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International House
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this ...
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Ebony Parade
Mantan Moreland hosts a series of filmed song, dance and band numbers by various artists, mostly rel...
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Rhythm and Blues Revue
Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition...
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TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the m...
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Jazz Ball
A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from...
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Cab Calloway: Sketches
A singer, dancer, and bandleader, Cab led one of the most popular African American big bands during ...
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Piano Blues
Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a...
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily ...
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I Was Here When You Left Me
Cab Calloway & Dotty Saulter perform "I Was Here When You Left Me"....
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The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'
The Stories Behind the Making of The Blues Brothers is an hour- long documentary featuring every par...
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Caldonia
Louis Jordan, with his band, sings and performs the title song, "Caldonia,", and "Honey Child," "Til...
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Grass
Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...
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Schlager-Raketen
"Festival of Hearts" is the name of the new pop music show by popular DJ Camillo. He came up with th...
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WrestleMania 2
Emanating from New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, WrestleMania 2 features Hulk Hogan defending the ...
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Triumph Over Violence
Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only in...
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