Benny Goodman Movies

This biography of musical legend Benny Goodman contains testimonials from various contemporaries and scholars, and offers several clips of the man in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Benny Goodman

In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Nelson Eddy

TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Allen

Animated sequences are set to two Benny Goodman numbers.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Benny Goodman

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny Kaye

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Ellison

Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bing Crosby

After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid...

Genre: Music

Cast: Benny Goodman

John Gunther, a great traveler in many parts of the globe, presented on the American ABC channel the documentary program "John Gunther's High Road"...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: John Gunther

The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial reruns, so it's especially gratifying to see a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sid Caesar

Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Charles Ruggles

Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Murphy

A film featuring some of best jazz musicians from the early twenties.

Genre: Music

Cast: Estelle Brody

Hasselgård died in a car accident 75 years ago, aged just 26, he became a legend like so many other young dead in jazz history. The clarinetist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Åke Hasselgård

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Terry

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

Genre: Music

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Offering hits re-released from 'Make Mine Music'...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Fred Waring

This concert film made in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles in 1976 captures a memorable performance conducted by the doyen of American...

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Cast: Aaron Copland

Mitzi Gaynor and her guests Gavin MacLeod (The Love Boat), John McCook (The Young and the Restless), and musician Benny Goodman explore trends of the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mitzi Gaynor

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Tissot

The jazz clarinetist and bandleader dubbed the King of Swing performs his final concert in 1980 at an unassuming club in Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens.

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Cast: Benny Goodman