Movies: Louis Armstrong

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Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the challenges many of the genre's artists faced when trying to gain recognition within conventional society. Inc...

Ludvig Brandstrup is a radio announcer and performs with great experience in front of the microphone. But the director is not exactly taking care of his duties; he has forgotten to inform the artists who will assist with the broadcast. This forgetful...

After Matt's feelings over take him, he confronts his friend, Seth, wondering why he never got the present he deserved, only to find his friend felt the same way. These two friend's begin to fight over there feeling only to find the true meaning to C...

Nina and Frederik were the big names in international showbiz in the 1950s with their rousing calypso rhythms. That's why "Kærlighedens Melodi" (The Melody of Love) was bound to be a hit when the young, beautiful couple teamed up with the legendary, ...

A short documentary about the making of the 1956 film, High Society. Hosted by Celeste Holm....

Documentary portrait of the legendary jazz bandleader. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000....

In 1965, during eminent trumpeter Louis Armstrong’s visit to Prague, Jan Spata then a young promising documentary filmmaker, created the report 'Hallo Satchmo'....

The memories of a woman, condensed into four periods....

First broadcast on the centenary of his birth, legendary jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong in performance....

A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'....

Louis Armstrong live in Stockholm 1962 features a TV appearance by Armstrong from 1962 -- working on trumpet and vocals with a small group that includes Trummy Young on trombone -- and which features Monica Zetterlund guesting on vocals on one number...

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942....

A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in American society that caused the United States to emerge by the end of World War II as a dominant world power....

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Louis Armstrong and his Sleepy Time Down South....

After having his shoes polished, a deadbeat runs away without paying for this task. Deceived, it is up to the shoeshine boy to chase the crook in order to charge him for the service he has just provided....

1941 Soundies musical short starring Louis Armstrong...

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