Swing Music Movies

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king.

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the...

Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials...

Artie Shaw and his orchestra perform four popular songs, "Alone Together", "Jeepers Creepers", "Deep Purple", and "Lady Be Good".

Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big...

His thoughts wandered across his beloved Prague all the time. Namely, the Lesser Town, where I walk over the Charles Bridge, through small, intricate...

During World War II three brothers go to enlist in the Air Force, but since they're farmers they're told they're needed at home more than in the...

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

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.

The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band during its sunset years: 87-year-old Al Casey, who had worked closely with Fats Waller throughout the 1930s; guitarist...

A little girl dreams that she's in Mother Goose Land filled with all sorts of Hollywood movie stars.

Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.

Year 1966 Vimazoluleka is the first play that Levy Rossell staged at the Ateneo de Caracas (Quinta Ramia) starting on August 18, 1966. He moved to...

After a wild party at Rainbow Day Care, Dolores announces that it's time for a nap. The Power Rockers don't want to follow her rules. Then Baby...

In 1945, as America's soldiers come home to ticker-tape parades and overjoyed families, Private First Class Donny Novitski, singer and songwriter,...

A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.

A young woman who is unable to pay her rent gets some unexpected help when the other tenants throw a last-minute rent party in her apartment. In the...