Movies: Louis Armstrong

A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea....

Documenting Louis Armstrong's appearance at the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival....

First broadcast on the centenary of his birth, legendary jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong in performance....

Documentary portrait of the legendary jazz bandleader. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000....

A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'....

Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones....

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A documentary featuring archive footage to celebrate the 100th birth of jazz legend Louis Armstrong....

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A short documentary about the making of the 1956 film, High Society. Hosted by Celeste Holm....

In 1965, during eminent trumpeter Louis Armstrong’s visit to Prague, Jan Spata then a young promising documentary filmmaker, created the report 'Hallo Satchmo'....

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After having his shoes polished, a deadbeat runs away without paying for this task. Deceived, it is up to the shoeshine boy to chase the crook in order to charge him for the service he has just provided....

Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles Armstrong from his humble beginnings in New Orleans through his career as America's Ambassador of Good Will....

A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in American society that caused the United States to emerge by the end of World War II as a dominant world power....

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942....

The memories of a woman, condensed into four periods....

1941 Soundies musical short starring Louis Armstrong...

Louis Armstrong live in Stockholm 1962 features a TV appearance by Armstrong from 1962 -- working on trumpet and vocals with a small group that includes Trummy Young on trombone -- and which features Monica Zetterlund guesting on vocals on one number...