Movies: Swing music

  • 1938
    The Prisoner of Swing

    The Prisoner of Swing (1938)

    The Prisoner of Swing

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    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 Prisoner of Swing
  • 2023
    Knights of Swing

    Knights of Swing (2023)

    Knights of Swing

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    Set in 1947, Knights of Swing is a feature film that chronicles a group of young jazz musicians whose dream is to form a “really swingin’ Big Band”. Unfortunately, things prove much more complicated when the community objects to the diversity of the...

    Knights of Swing
  • 1943
    Swing Fever

    Swing Fever (1943)

    Swing Fever

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    Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers....

    Swing Fever
  • 1967
    Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim

    Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967)

    Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim

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    Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim is a 1967 television special starring Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, accompanied by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. A truly memorable television event, the third annual special finds Frank ...

    Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
  • 1990
    Dance Crazy in Hollywood

    Dance Crazy in Hollywood (1990)

    Dance Crazy in Hollywood

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

    Dance Crazy in Hollywood
  • 1936
    Every Sunday

    Every Sunday (1936)

    Every Sunday

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    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 want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from happening, Judy and Edna gather a crowd the following...

    Every Sunday
  • 1937
    Hotel a la Swing

    Hotel a la Swing (1937)

    Hotel a la Swing

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

    Hotel a la Swing
  • 1940
    Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'

    Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes' (1940)

    Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'

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

    Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'
  • 1939
    Naughty But Nice

    Naughty But Nice (1939)

    Naughty But Nice

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    Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is ...

    Naughty But Nice
  • 1937
    Varsity Show

    Varsity Show (1937)

    Varsity Show

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    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 Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three sho...

    Varsity Show
  • 1939
    Somewhat Secret

    Somewhat Secret (1939)

    Somewhat Secret

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    At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely punished. Complications develop when she finds out that her boyfriend, a chemistry professor at the...

    Somewhat Secret
  • 2018
    Bandstand

    Bandstand (2018)

    Bandstand

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    In 1945, as America's soldiers come home to ticker-tape parades and overjoyed families, Private First Class Donny Novitski, singer and songwriter, returns to rebuild his life with only the shirt on his back and a dream in his heart. When NBC announce...

    Bandstand
  • 2022
    Mini Beat Power Rockers: The Movie

    Mini Beat Power Rockers: The Movie (2022)

    Mini Beat Power Rockers: The Movie

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    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 Marciano shows up and invites them to Planet Me, a planet without rules, where everything is possible....

    Mini Beat Power Rockers: The Movie
  • 1943
    Boogie Woogie Man (Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out)

    Boogie Woogie Man (Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out) (1943)

    Boogie Woogie Man (Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out)

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

    Boogie Woogie Man (Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out)
  • 1941
    Las Vegas Nights

    Las Vegas Nights (1941)

    Las Vegas Nights

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    A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance....

    Las Vegas Nights
  • 1942
    What's Cookin'?

    What's Cookin'? (1942)

    What's Cookin'?

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    J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring wit...

    What's Cookin'?
  • 1939
    Double Deal

    Double Deal (1939)

    Double Deal

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    Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry store and turns the loot over to gang-boss Murray Howard. Later, Markey robs the safe, steals the jewelry, and, in order to get rid of his rival for ...

    Double Deal
  • 2004
    The Last of the First

    The Last of the First (2004)

    The Last of the First

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    The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band during its sunset years: 87-year-old Al Casey, who had worked closely with Fats Waller throughout the 1930s; guitarist Lawrence Lucie, 95 years young, from the bands of Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter and Duke Ellington; sa...

    The Last of the First
  • 1945
    Spreadin' the Jam

    Spreadin' the Jam (1945)

    Spreadin' the Jam

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    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 process, they all charm the landlady out of a year's rent. The entire story is told in song (swing mu...

    Spreadin' the Jam
  • 1965
    Ella Fitzgerald Swings

    Ella Fitzgerald Swings (1965)

    Ella Fitzgerald Swings

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    Presenting the world's greatest jazz singer accompanied by The Tommy Flanagan Trio....

    Ella Fitzgerald Swings