Gene Krupa

Brazilian animated film, hand-painted on 35mm film.

Фильм-биография «Короля свинга» — Бенни Гудмена и его группы, от истоков становления до концерта оркестра Гудмена в Карнеги-холле, в Нью-Йорке, в 1938 году.

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."

Великолепный музыкальный фильм – биография, в котором Гленн Миллер и его биг-бенд вновь исполнят для вас свои бесподобные хиты. Захватывающая картина, посвященная легендарному американскому музыканту, рассказывает о его восхождении в начале сороковых годов XX века от бедности и безвестности к славе и богатству. В фильме играют великие Джимми Стюарт и Джун Эллисон, звучит оригинальная музыка Миллера в исполнении оркестра Гленна Миллера и таких выдающихся музыкантов, как Луи Армстронг, Джин Крупа, Фрэнсис Лэнгфорд и The Modernaries. Дополняют великолепный состав исполнителей любимцы публики – Генри Морган (M*A*S*H), Чарльз Дрейк и Джордж Тобиас. Благодаря дирижерскому искусству Энтони Мана динамический свинг Гленна Миллера оживает вновь!

Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first name the most musical numbers and their performers. Lots of musicians perform.

Includes the segments, "Bop Boogie", "Sabre Dance" and "Disc Jockey Jump" by Gene and the band with vocalist Dolores Hawkins and introduced by Disc Jockey Fred Robbins.

The growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center.

This "Name Band Musical" short from Universal (production number 3302), filmed in November of 1947 and released on December 3, 1947 (which should make it a 1947 and not a 1948 film) features Gene Krupa, his drums and his trio. It opens with Krupa and the trio playing "Lover" and then Carolyn Grey comes on to sing "Boogie Blues." Krupa and the trio band also play "Blanchette", "Stompin' at the Savoy" and end on "Let Us Leap."

Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.

Two reel comedy starring Gene Krupa as an Orchestra leader trying to make it in New York.

Two silky-smooth producers line up a potential backer (who'll put up half the cash) for a musical review. The catch is that they must find someone else to put up the other half. Enter cigar-smoking cross-dresser "Bumpsie" (Tim Moore), who poses as a wealthy society matron to fool the angel! Features vintage jam sessions with swing drummer Gene Krupa, Big Sid Catlett and his band, The Slam Stewart Trio and The International Jitterbugs.

Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Thanks for the Boogie Ride".

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".

Группа учёных в особняке, предоставленном им меценатами, который год трудится над созданием новой энциклопедии. Они уже дошли до буквы «с», и тут профессор филологии Поттс с ужасом выясняет, что его статья о сленге безнадёжно устарела! Учёный отправляется в народ, чтобы постичь азы современного языка улиц, знакомится в ночном клубе со сногсшибательной певицей «Пупсиком» О`Шей и приглашает её принять участие в научных диспутах. А между тем полиция сбилась с ног, разыскивая красавицу, ведь она может рассказать немало интересного о делах своего любовника, знаменитого гангстера Джо Лилака…

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.

A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation. An interesting mixture of the stars whose fame continued to grow, those who became bit players in show business history, and those who have been forgotten entirely, except at the Internet Movie Database of course!