Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
1935 American film
- 1935 (1935)
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Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party is a 1935 American musical short film which was released by Paramount Pictures (later sold to U.M. & M. TV Corporation). In 2001, the film was reissued by Kino International in the DVD collection Hollywood Rhythm: Vol. 1-The Best Of Jazz And Blues.[1]
Synopsis
Bandleader Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz" and "Long About Midnight" at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York before going to a house party and performing "Jitterbug". In the final sequence, a young Lena Horne can be seen as a Cotton Club dancer doing the jitterbug.[2]
References
- ^ Pratt, Douglas (2004). Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More!. UNET 2 Corporation. p. 562. ISBN 978-1-932916-00-3.
- ^ Lefkovitz, Aaron (2017). Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917-2017. Lexington Books. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4985-5576-0.
External links
Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party at IMDb
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Cab Calloway
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- "Nobody's Sweetheart" (1931)
- "Six or Seven Times" (1931)
- "You Rascal, You" (1931)
- "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (1931)
- "Reefer Man" (1932)
- "I've Got the World on a String" (1932)
- "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (1933)
- "(Hep Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive" (1939)
- "Bye Bye Blues" (1941)
- "Blues in the Night" (1942)
- "The Honeydripper" (1946)
- "Little Child" (1956)
- "History Repeats Itself" (1966)
- "Minnie the Moocher" (1978)
- Minnie the Moocher (1932)
- Snow-White (1933)
- The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
- Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
- Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935)
- Alright (1990)
- Eddie Barefield
- Danny Barker
- Mario Bauzá
- Chu Berry
- Jerry Blake
- Andrew Brown
- Doc Cheatham
- Cozy Cole
- Shad Collins
- R.Q. Dickerson
- Panama Francis
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Tyree Glenn
- J. C. Heard
- Milt Hinton
- Quentin Jackson
- Illinois Jacquet
- Hilton Jefferson
- Keg Johnson
- Claude Jones
- Jonah Jones
- Al Morgan
- Rudy Powell
- Ike Quebec
- Reuben Reeves
- Edwin Swayze
- Walter Thomas
- Ben Webster
- Morris White
- Lammar Wright Sr.
- The Cab Calloway Orchestra
- Blanche Calloway
- Camay Calloway Murphy
- Sunset Cafe
- The Missourians
- Cotton Club
- Hepcat
- Jive talk
- Zoot suit
- Jitterbug
- Cab Calloway School of the Arts
- "Hi-De-Ho"
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