Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party

IMDb link: 0026160
IMDb rating: 7.1 (85 votes)
Genres: Music, Short, Musical
Director: Fred Waller
Cast: Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, Ethel Moses, Avon Long and others

Release date: 24 May 1935
Release year: 1935
Runtime: 8 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: radio show within a film, jazz band, white tuxedo, big band, musical number, scat singing, street life, craps game, streets of new york, after party

Plot:

This entry in Paramount's "Headliner" series of musical shorts headlines Cab Calloway, His Orchestra and Ethel Moses. THey do some numbers at Harlem's "Cotton Club" and following the show, they go over to a Harlem rendezvous and shimmy at a jitterbug party. Hi-de-Ho!

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