Movies: Swing music

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....

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

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....

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...

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 ...

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

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

Django Reinhardt's music still looms as the standard to be attained some 50 years after his death....

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...

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Sara and Alberto, who in their youth made music for love, with the passage of time are besieged by boredom, they will look for more spice in their lives but... With a third party?..."...

The Modernaires sing "Juke Box Saturday Night"....