Swing Music Movies

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

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

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

Documentary about the mid-20th century Vegas bandleader and trumpeter Louis Prima, who showed the world what a rock show could be.

Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king.

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

Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.

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...

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.

A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's...

After a wild party at Rainbow Day Care, Dolores announces that it's time for a nap. The Power Rockers don't want to follow her rules. Then Baby...

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon...

Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big...

In 1945, as America's soldiers come home to ticker-tape parades and overjoyed families, Private First Class Donny Novitski, singer and songwriter,...

Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim is a 1967 television special starring Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, accompanied by...

Artie Shaw and his orchestra perform four popular songs, "Alone Together", "Jeepers Creepers", "Deep Purple", and "Lady Be Good".

His thoughts wandered across his beloved Prague all the time. Namely, the Lesser Town, where I walk over the Charles Bridge, through small, intricate...

Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials...

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