Connection
King of Jazz is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Paul Fejos released in USA on 20 april 1930 with John Boles
King of Jazz (1930)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listKing of Jazz is a 1930 American color film starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The film's title was taken from Whiteman's controversial, self-conferred appellation. Although using the word to describe Whiteman's music may seem absurd today, at the time the film was made, "jazz", to the general public, meant the jazz-influenced syncopated dance music which was being heard everywhere on phonograph records and through radio broadcasts. Lending his title a measure of legitimacy is the fact that in the 1920s Whiteman signed and featured great white jazz musicians including Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang (both are seen and heard in the film), Bix Beiderbecke (who had left before filming began), Frank Trumbauer and others still held in high regard.
King of Jazz was filmed entirely in the early two-color Technicolor process and was produced by Carl Laemmle for Universal Pictures. The movie featured several songs sung on camera by the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris), as well as off-camera solo vocals by Crosby during the opening credits and, very briefly, during a cartoon sequence. King of Jazz still survives in a complete color print and is not a lost film.
In 2013 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Synopsis
Évocation à travers des séquences musicales magiques de l'importance du jazz dans la musique américaine des années 30. Entre spectacle de music-hall, animation et comédie musicale classique.Actors
John Boles
(Vocalist ('Song of the Dawn' / 'It Happened in Monterey'))
Laura La Plante
(Editor ('Ladies of the Press') / Stenographer ('In Conference') / Quartet Member, 'Nellie')
Jeanette Loff
(Vocalist ('It Happened in Monterey' / 'Bridal Veil' / 'A Bench in the Park'))
Bing Crosby
(Trio Singer (as The Rhythm Boys))
Glenn Tryon
(Executive ('In Conference') / Unmarried Husband)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to King of Jazz
There are 174 films with the same actors, 17 films with the same director, 43319 with the same cinematographic genres (including 216 with exactly the same 3 genres than King of Jazz), 6745 films with the same themes (including 90 films with the same 3 themes than King of Jazz), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked King of Jazz, you will probably like those similar films :
Captain of the Guard (1930)
, 1h23Directed by Paul Fejos, John S. Robertson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Laura La Plante, John Boles, Sam De Grasse, James A. Marcus, Lionel Belmore, Stuart Holmes
Rating69%
Broadway (1929)
, 1h44Directed by Paul Fejos
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Robert Ellis, Thomas E. Jackson, Otis Harlan
Rating61%
Roy Lane and Billie Moore, entertainers at the Paradise Nightclub, are in love and are rehearsing an act together. Late to work one evening, Billie is saved from dismissal by Nick Verdis, the club proprietor, through the intervention of Steve Crandall, a bootlegger, who desires a liaison with the girl. "Scar" Edwards, robbed of a truckload of contraband liquor by Steve's gang, arrives at the club for a showdown with Steve and is shot in the back. Steve gives Billie a bracelet to forget that she has seen him helping a "drunk" from the club. Though Roy is arrested by Dan McCorn, he is later released on Billie's testimony. Nick is murdered by Steve. Billie witnesses the killing, but keeps quiet about the dirty business until she finds out Steve's next target is Roy. Billie is determined to tell her story to the police before Roy winds up dead, but Steve isn't about to let that happen and kidnaps her. Steve, in his car, is fired at from a taxi, and overheard by Pearl, he confesses to killing Edwards. Pearl confronts Steve in Nick's office and kills him; and McCorn, finding Steve's body, insists that he committed suicide, exonerating Pearl and leaving Roy and Billie to the success of their act.
Voices of Spring (1933)
, 1h20Directed by Paul Fejos
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors S.Z. Sakall, Oskar Karlweis, Ursula Grabley, Frida Richard, Theodor Danegger
Variety Girl (1947)
, 1h33Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, DeForest Kelley, Frank Ferguson, Bing Crosby, Nella Walker
Rating62%
Anything Goes (1936)
, 1h32Directed by Lewis Milestone, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Benjamin Glazer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles, Ida Lupino, Arthur Treacher, Robert McWade
Rating61%
Pennies from Heaven (1936)
, 1h23Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, Jo Swerling
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, Donald Meek, John Gallaudet, Nana Bryant
Rating64%
In prison, Larry Poole (Bing Crosby), a self-described troubadour, is approached by an inmate named Hart (John Gallaudet) who is on his way to the electric chair. Hart asks Larry to deliver a letter to a family called Smith near Middletown, New Jersey. After finding the family, which consists of a grandfather (Donald Meek) and a young girl named Patsy (Edith Fellows), Poole tells them that the letter holds a key, reveals that the condemned man had unintentionally killed Patsy's father and that he is giving the Smith family his old house and former hideout, the only thing he has to give as atonement.
Curly Top (1935)
, 1h14Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, John Boles, Rochelle Hudson, Esther Dale, Jane Darwell, Billy Gilbert
Rating67%
Young Elizabeth Blair (Shirley Temple) lives at the Lakeside Orphanage, a dreary, regimented place supervised by two decent but dour women. Her older sister Mary (Rochelle Hudson) works in the kitchen, laundry, and dormitory. Elizabeth is a sweet child but her high spirits often lead her into trouble with the superintendent.
Lonesome (1928)
, 1h30Directed by Paul Fejos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Eddie Phillips, Andy Devine, Henry Armetta, Edgar Dearing
Rating76%
In New York, Mary is a telephone operator who lives alone and is lonely. Jim is a factory worker who lives alone and is lonely. Each decides to go to the beach (presumably Coney Island) and both are captivated with each other, eventually realizing, moreover, that they really do like each other. Having gone from loneliness to finding love, enjoying the company of each other and having fun, they are – due to exigent circumstances and hundreds of visitors to the beach that day – both separated from the other. Only knowing each other's first name, and having only a small photo of each other, Jim and Mary are desperate to find each other. Will these two lonesome individuals who have discovered their love for each other.
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
, 1h31Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about films, Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Films about Tibet, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Robert Morley, Walter Gotell, Dorothy Lamour
Rating60%
The story is told in flashback as Diane (Joan Collins) explains to American Intelligence how transmissions from passengers picked up from a missile to the moon are by Americans rather than Russians.
High Time (1960)
, 1h43Directed by Blake Edwards, Charles Brackett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Fabian Forte, Tuesday Weld, Nicole Maurey, Richard Beymer, Patrick Adiarte
Rating59%
Wealthy restauranteur Harvey Howard (Bing Crosby), a self-made man, widower and owner of "Harvey Howard Smokehouses", decides to go back to college at the age of 51 and earn a bachelor's degree. He faces opposition from his grown snobbish children, as well as a generation gap between himself and his much-younger fellow students. The first day in school he finds that just convincing older students, faculty and the admin personnel is a humorous task. He enrolls and receives freshman rooming, and is up front about his determination to be "just another freshman". Being assigned a quad rooming arrangement, this sets the standard for the upcoming years. Dealing with the student press, the dorm adviser and making that first toast with sauerkraut juice to seal their bond to complete their four years together.