Gene Krupa Movies

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

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Stewart

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dana Andrews

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

Two reel comedy starring Gene Krupa as an Orchestra leader trying to make it in New York.

Genre: Music

Cast: Gene Krupa

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gary Cooper

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

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

“A tribute to the Swing Era evoked by skillful intercutting of rare material examining the varying fortunes of five ex-Basie sidemen. It looks...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Humphrey Lyttelton

A talent scout and her colleague form their own company when their agency ignores their latest discovery.

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Cast: Gene Krupa

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ruth Warrick

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Genre: Music

Cast: Cab Calloway

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Davis

Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.

Genre: Music

Cast: Frances Langford

Two silky-smooth producers line up a potential backer (who'll put up half the cash) for a musical review. The catch is that they must find someone...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sheila Guyse

Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".

Genre: Music

Cast: Gene Krupa

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Steve Allen

This "Name Band Musical" short from Universal (production number 3302), filmed in November of 1947 and released on December 3, 1947 (which should...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gene Krupa

Includes the segments, "Bop Boogie", "Sabre Dance" and "Disc Jockey Jump" by Gene and the band with vocalist Dolores Hawkins and introduced by Disc...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gene Krupa

The growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Freddie Stewart

Gene Krupa and His Orchestra have a jam session.

Genre: Music

Cast: Gene Krupa