Cab Calloway
Рождение : 1907-12-25, Rochester, New York, USA
Смерть : 1994-11-18
История
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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Himself
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 Harlem’s famous Cotton Club as his home stage. Best known for his “Hi de hi de hi de ho” refrain from signature song “Minnie the Moocher,” portrayal of Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess (1952), and role in The Blues Brothers (1980), Cab influenced countless performers, including Michael and Janet Jackson, and many of today’s hip-hop artists.
Self (archive footage)
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and historians discuss the image of black America on television from Amos and Andy to the present day. The interviews accompany clips from groundbreaking shows and performances by entertainment pioneers that create a timeline of the portrayal of African Americans throughout TV history.
Self (archive footage)
Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical footage in addition to interviews and performances by such living legends as Pinetop Perkins and Jay McShann, as well as Dave Brubeck and Marcia Ball.
Himself
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 Aykroyd explains how a joke that he and best friend John Belushi shared with friends evolved from a Saturday Night Live skit to a best-selling album and then to a film. Director John Landis covers the difficult production, from the outrageous stunts to Belushi's disappearances from the set.
Self (archive footage)
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 popular icon since the 1930s.
Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Self
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 taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Curtis
Братья-музыканты Джейк и Элвуд Блюзы узнают, что их родная церковь будет снесена, если за нее вовремя не внесут плату в 5 тысяч долларов. На поиск денег у братьев не много времени, и они решают дать концерт. Однако Джейк только что вышел из тюрьмы, а у Элвуда свои неприятности с законом, и добраться до них мечтают все кому не лень: полиция, бандиты, неонацисты. Прежде чем спасти церковь, братья Блюз устроят настоящий беспредел на улицах Чикаго…
A film by Chris Robinson.
Self (archive footage)
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Gabriel
Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthday. Michael doesn't fully understand where he is, or why he's there. A guardian angel named Patience is given the task of showing Michael the joys of Heaven and helping him find his place in the Hereafter.
Yeller
Цинциннати Кид — лучший игрок в Новом Орлеане в стад покер. Однажды от карточного дилера Шутера он узнаёт, что в город приехал знаменитый Лэнси Говард — лучший карточный игрок. Кид решает сразиться с ним, чтобы победить, ему удаётся договориться об игре, делаются ставки, и игра начинается…
Blade
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 can't stay away from the music of the streets and workers. After he writes a theme song for a local politician, Gogo, a speakeasy singer, convinces Will to be her accompanist. Will is estranged from his father for many years while he writes and publishes many blues songs. At last the family is reunited when Gogo brings them to New York to see Will's music played by a symphony orchestra.
Self (archive footage)
A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Self
Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films produced by Snader and Studio Telescriptions, with newly-filmed host segments by Willie Bryant. Originally 86 minutes, the "short" version available on public domain collections and websites is missing a reel
Himself
Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.
Himself
Cab Calloway sings "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya".
Cab Calloway sings "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo".
Cab Calloway & Dotty Saulter perform "I Was Here When You Left Me".
Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Walking with My Honey".
Himself
Louis Jordan, with his band, sings and performs the title song, "Caldonia,", and "Honey Child," "Tillie" and 'Buzz Me", wowing the jitter-buggers, zoot suits and bobby-soxers of the mid-1940s, all built around a wisp of a plot dealing with the difficulties of production in Harlem.
Cab Calloway
Таинственная женщина стреляет в звезду Бродвея Джинни Уокер, после чего загадочным образом исчезает. Джинни не пострадала и вскоре признается друзьям, что это был рекламный трюк, а роль незнакомки сыграла ее подруга. Гас Крейн (глава рекламного агентства, с которым сотрудничает Джинни) в восхищении от ее поступка, но его сын не одобряет подобных методов. Но вскоре Гас уезжает в отпуск и, к негодованию своего сына, оставляет Джинни распоряжаться фирмой, и теперь молодым людям приходится вместе осуществлять безрассудные идеи обворожительной звезды...
Cab Calloway
Dancing great Bill Williamson sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: Just back from World War I, he meets lovely singer Selina Rogers at a soldiers' ball and promises to come back to her when he "gets to be somebody." Years go by, and Bill and Selina's rising careers intersect only briefly, since Selina is unwilling to settle down. Will she ever change her mind? Concludes with a big all-star show hosted by Cab Calloway.
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 Mouse is riding in his motor car, while the skunk moans about how "nobody loves me" on account of him just being a "dirty old skunk".
Himself / Vocals
Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".
Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".
Cab Calloway Orchestra
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 gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."
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 the tea leaves, she sees situations which lead to Cab and his orchestra performing musical numbers.
Cab Calloway
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 Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
Cab Calloway performs at the Cotton Club before he takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.
Cab Calloway
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.
Old Man / Reporter
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
This riveting collection of jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway's most electrifying performances brings to life a bygone era of swinging jazz and heart-stopping musical numbers. One of the great jazz artists of his time, Calloway was closely associated with the musical movement of 1930s and 40s Harlem, and was a regular performer at the famed Cotton Club.
Himself & Old Man
Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.
Koko the Clown (voice)
Злобная длинноволосая королева спрашивает у зеркальца в руке, кто прекрасней всех на свете, и зеркало отвечает, что это она. Но в пещеру королевы с песней о мачехе приходит Белоснежка, и теперь зеркальце самой прекрасной называет Белоснежку. Королева приказывает отрубить Белоснежке голову, но Коко и Бимбо не могут заставить себя выполнить указ. Белоснежку помещают в глыбу льда, а семь гномов, думая, что она умерла, приносят её в таинственную пещеру. Туда же приходят Коко и Бимбо, а также королева, превратившаяся в ведьму. Клоун с голосом Кэба Келлоуэя поет песню, а в пещере полно летающих скелетов и блуждающих привидений. Теперь только чудо сможет спасти Белоснежку и двух героев.
Cab Calloway
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 medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
Cab Calloway
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.
Self - Bandleader
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
