Jazz Ball (1956)

★ 7.0 0h 56m IMDb
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A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Jazz Ball

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Cast

Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway as Self (archive footage) Died 1994 · Rochester, New York, USA 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 po...
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington as Self (archive footage) Died 1974 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City...
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage) Died 1971 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inve...
Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton as Self (archive footage) Died 2007 · Battle Creek, Michigan, USA Betty Hutton (born Elizabeth June Thornburg) was a star American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer..
Rudy Vallee
Rudy Vallee as Self (archive footage) Died 1986 · Island Pond, Vermont, USA Rudy Vallee started his career as a saxophone player and singer and later became a band leader. In the 1920s and early 30s he had a hit radio program, The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour (where he was hated...
Bob Crosby
Bob Crosby as Self (archive footage) Died 1993 · Spokane, Washington, USA George Robert Crosby (August 23, 1913 – March 9, 1993) was an American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats, which formed around 1935. The Bob-Cats were a New Orleans Dixi...
Director Leslie M. Roush
Cast Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Betty Hutton, Lawrence Welk, Rudy Vallee, Bob Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Jimmy Dorsey, Ina Ray Hutton

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