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An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
The Cincinnati Kid
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
The Blues Brothers
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early...
Stormy Weather
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...
Cab Calloway Home Movies
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...
St. Louis Blues
Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.
Hi-De-Ho
Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.
Snow-White
Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.
The Old Man of the Mountain
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl...
The Singing Kid
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...
Betty Boop: Queen of the 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...
Sensations of 1945
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.
The Big Broadcast
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth...
The Littlest Angel
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...
The Skunk Song
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Walking with My Honey".
Walking with My Honey
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington)...
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
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 performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.
Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Night of 100 Stars III
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...
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
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...
Cab Calloway Home Movie #5
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. ...
Cab Calloway Home Movie #2
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 Home Movie: Haiti
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...
Cab Calloway Home Movie #1
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...
Cab Calloway Home Movie #4
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 Home Movie #3
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
Minnie the Moocher
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...
Night of 100 Stars II
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...
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small...
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...
The Harlem Renaissance
An experimental short film using only free archival footage.
Everything's Fine
This riveting collection of jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway's most electrifying performances brings to life a bygone era of swinging jazz and...
Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
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...
International House
Cab Calloway sings "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya".
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".
Ebony Parade
Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films...
Rhythm and Blues Revue
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".
Blues in the Night
Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".
A film by Chris Robinson.
The Great Balloon Race
A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Jazz Ball
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: Sketches
Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical...
Piano Blues
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".
Blowtop Blues
Cab Calloway sings "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo".
Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
Cab Calloway & Dotty Saulter perform "I Was Here When You Left Me".
I Was Here When You Left Me
The Stories Behind the Making of The Blues Brothers is an hour- long documentary featuring every participant from the film. Star and co-writer Dan...
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'
Louis Jordan, with his band, sings and performs the title song, "Caldonia,", and "Honey Child," "Tillie" and 'Buzz Me", wowing the jitter-buggers,...
Caldonia