Movies: Swing music

In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel....

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

At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely punished. Complications develop when she finds out that her boyfriend, a chemistry professor at the...

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer....

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon passing by the apartment hears him singing and advises him go to his wife's gypsy tea room. As she reads ...

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 process, they all charm the landlady out of a year's rent. The entire story is told in song (swing mu...

The annual ghost convention introduces swing music to their tired out old scares....

Django Reinhardt's music still looms as the standard to be attained some 50 years after his death....

Presenting the world's greatest jazz singer accompanied by The Tommy Flanagan Trio....

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 Lawrence Lucie, 95 years young, from the bands of Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter and Duke Ellington; sa...

Sara and Alberto, who in their youth made music for love, with the passage of time are besieged by boredom, they will look for more spice in their lives but... With a third party?..."...

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The Modernaires sing "Juke Box Saturday Night"....