Cab Calloway
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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.085 |
| Birthday | 1907-12-25 |
| Place of Birth | Rochester, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Cabell Calloway III, |
1965
The Cincinnati Kid
7/279
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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The Cincinnati Kid
1980
The Blues Brothers
7.732/4216
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.
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The Blues Brothers
1943
Stormy Weather
6.9/39
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early...
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Stormy Weather
1948
Cab Calloway Home Movies
0/0
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 and...
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Cab Calloway Home Movies
1958
St. Louis Blues
7.8/4
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 he...
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St. Louis Blues
1947
Hi-De-Ho
5.7/6
Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.
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Hi-De-Ho
1933
Snow-White
6.803/104
Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.
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Snow-White
1933
The Old Man of the Mountain
6.6/31
Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.
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The Old Man of the Mountain
1936
The Singing Kid
4/1
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...
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The Singing Kid
1995
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
8/4
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...
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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1944
Sensations of 1945
6.2/4
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 her....
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Sensations of 1945
1932
The Big Broadcast
7.1/8
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.
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The Big Broadcast
1934
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
5.714/14
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
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Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
1969
The Littlest Angel
5.3/6
Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthda...
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The Littlest Angel
1942
The Skunk Song
10/1
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...
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The Skunk Song
1934
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
6.6/13
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) o...
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Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
1937
Hi-De-Ho
8/2
Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon passi...
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Hi-De-Ho
1945
Walking with My Honey
0/0
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Walking with My Honey".
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Walking with My Honey
1935
Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
5.2/5
Cab Calloway performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.
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Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
4/2
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
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Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
0/0
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...
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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1951
Cab Calloway Home Movie #1
0/0
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...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #1
1951
Cab Calloway Home Movie #3
0/0
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...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #3
1950
Cab Calloway Home Movie #2
0/0
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...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #2
1948
Cab Calloway Home Movie #5
0/0
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...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #5
1951
Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti
0/0
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...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti
1950
Cab Calloway Home Movie #4
0/0
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...
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #4
1932
Minnie the Moocher
6.6/71
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
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Minnie the Moocher
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
8/3
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...
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Night of 100 Stars II
1937
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
5.8/6
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...
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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
2024
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
10/1
A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small...
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Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
2004
The Harlem Renaissance
6/1
Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the challenge...
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The Harlem Renaissance
2020
Everything's Fine
0/0
An experimental short film using only free archival footage.
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Everything's Fine
1934
Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
0/0
This riveting collection of jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway's most electrifying performances brings to life a bygone era of swinging jazz and...
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Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
1933
International House
5.3/17
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...
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International House
1945
We the Cats Shall Hep Ya
3/1
Cab Calloway sings "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya".
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We the Cats Shall Hep Ya
Ebony Parade
0/0
Mantan Moreland hosts a series of filmed song, dance and band numbers by various artists, mostly released previously as individual "soundies".
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Ebony Parade
1955
Rhythm and Blues Revue
6/3
Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films produced...
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Rhythm and Blues Revue
2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
4/1
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and hi...
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TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
1942
Blues in the Night
5.5/2
Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".
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Blues in the Night
1942
Minnie the Moocher
8/5
Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".
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Minnie the Moocher
1977
The Great Balloon Race
0/0
A film by Chris Robinson.
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The Great Balloon Race
1956
Jazz Ball
7/1
A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Jazz Ball
2012
Cab Calloway: Sketches
0/0
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 Har...
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Cab Calloway: Sketches
2003
Piano Blues
6.5/10
Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical footage in addi...
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Piano Blues
1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
0/0
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1945
Blowtop Blues
0/0
Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".
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Blowtop Blues
1945
Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
2/1
Cab Calloway sings "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo".
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Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
1945
I Was Here When You Left Me
2/1
Cab Calloway & Dotty Saulter perform "I Was Here When You Left Me".
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I Was Here When You Left Me
1998
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'
5/1
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 Ayk...
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The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'
1945
Caldonia
0/0
Louis Jordan, with his band, sings and performs the title song, "Caldonia,", and "Honey Child," "Tillie" and 'Buzz Me", wowing the jitter-buggers, zoo...
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Caldonia
1999
Grass
6.5/35
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Grass
1960
Schlager-Raketen
0/0
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