Jazz Ball

56m
MusicDocumentary
8

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

Cast

Cab Calloway
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Betty Hutton
Self (archive footage)
Lawrence Welk
Self (archive footage)
Rudy Vallee
Self (archive footage)
Bob Crosby
Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Dorsey
Self (archive footage)
Ina Ray Hutton
Self (archive footage)
Red Nichols
Self (archive footage)
Russ Morgan
Self (archive footage)
Isham Jones
Self (archive footage)
Hal Kemp
Self (archive footage)
Henry Busse
Self (archive footage)
Gene Krupa
Self (archive footage)
Peggy Lee
Self (archive footage)
Louis Prima
Self (archive footage)
Artie Shaw
Self (archive footage)
Buddy Rich
Self (archive footage)
Johnnie Davis
Self (archive footage)

Crew

Leslie M. Roush
Director
Charles Leonard
Writer
Alvin Ganzer
Producer

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