Cab Calloway Movies

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…

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.

The evil, long-nosed queen asks the magic mirror in her hand who’s the fairest in the land, and the mirror replies that she is. But into the queen’s cave walks…

Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.

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…

Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.

This film explores the history of the American government’s official policy on marijuana in the 20th century. Rising with xenophobia with Mexican immigration and their taste for smoking marijuana, we…

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…

After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit “The Penguin”, the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They…