Bandleader Movies

Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant...

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him,...

A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader...

James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood...

In this MGM Miniature Musical, Harry Owens and his orchestra perform several song numbers.

An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray...

His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic...

Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.

As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up,...

A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.

A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.

This one-reel musical short, part of the WB/Vitaphone Melody Master series, features the music of trumpet-player and orchestra leader Henry Busse and...

This musical short salutes bandleader B.A. Rolfe on his 40th anniversary in show business.

A musical short subject in which band leader Freddie Rich conducts three musical numbers with his orchestra, with solos by Nan Wynn with the Three...

In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs. For the complete...