Filmography

Ada Leonard and Her All-Girl Orchestra

  • El Cumbanchero. 1950/1951. Snader Telescriptions. Studio Films, Inc.
  • Hotcha Chornia Brown. 1950/1951. Snader Telescriptions. Studio Films, Inc.
  • Indiana. 1950/1951. Snader Telescriptions. Studio Films, Inc.
  • It’s So Nice to Have a Man around the House. 1951. Snader Telescriptions.
  • It’s the Same Old Shillelagh. 1950/1951. Snader Telescriptions.
  • Poinciana. 1950/1951. Snader Telescriptions.
  • Search for Girls. 1951. KTTV television series.

Babe Egan and Her Hollywood Redheads

  • Babe Egan and Her Hollywood Redheads. 1930. Vitaphone 997.

Bessie Smith

  • St. Louis Blues. 1929. RCA. Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Directed by Dudley Murphy.

Billie Holiday

  • New Orleans. 1947. Majestic Productions, Inc. United Artists distributors. Directed by Arthur Lubin.
  • Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. 1935. Paramount Pictures. Directed by Fred Waller. Presented by Adolph Zukor.

Clora Bryant

  • The Hollywood Sepia Tones. 1951. Los Angeles.

The Coquettes

  • Frances Carroll & the Coquettes. 1939. Vitaphone B220. Featuring Frances Carroll & The Coquettes with Eunice Healey and Viola Smith. Directed by Roy Mack. Photographed by Ray Foster.

Dave Schooler and his 21 Swinghearts

  • I Love You Too Much.1941. Soundies Distributing Company of America.
  • In an Eighteenth-Century Drawing Room.1941. Minoco Productions, Inc. Soundies Distributing Company of America, Inc. Re-released by Castle Films (1946).
  • Isn’t That Just Like Love.1941. Minoco Productions. Featuring Sylvia Froos. Re-released by Castle Films.
  • Night ride.1941. Minoco Productions. Soundies Distributing Company of America, Inc.
  • Pavanne. 1941. Minoco Productions. Soundies Distributing Company of America. Re-released by Castle Films as The Music Album: All-Girl Melody Makers.
  • Sheherezade.1941. Minoco Productions. Soundies Distributing Company of America, Inc.
  • Tchaikovskiana. 1941. Minoco Productions. Soundies Distributing Company of America, Inc. Re-released by Castle Films as The Music Album: All-Girl Melody Makers.

Dinah Shore

  • The Dinah Shore Chevy Show. 1951-1963. NBC television series.

Dinah Washington (1924-1963)

  • Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue. 1955. Directed by Joseph Kohn. Television series. Studio Films Inc.
  • Show Time at the Appolo. 1955. Television series. Studio Films Inc.
  • The DuPont Show of the Month. 1957. CBS Television series.
  • Startime (Ford Startime). 1960. NBC Television series.
  • Jazz on a Summer’s Day. 1959. Newport Jazz Festival Documentary. Directed by Aram Avakian and Bert Stern. Galaxy Productions.

Ding Dong Dollies (the Rhythm Misses)

  • Big Fat Mama. 1944. Featuring Red Stanley.
  • Big Man from the South.1944. Featuring Red Stanley (vocals and dance).

Dorothy Donegan

  • Sensations of 1945. 1944. Andrew L. Stone Productions. Starring Cab Calloway and Dorothy Donegan. Directed by Andrew L. Stone.

Ella Fitzgerald

  • Ride ‘Em Cowboy. 1943. Universal Pictures. Directed by Arthur Lubin. Songs: “A Ticket-A Tasket”.
  • Pete Kelly’s Blues. 1955. Warner Bros. Directed by Jack Webb.
  • The Tender Game. 1958. Storyboard. Directed by John Hubley. Animated short.
  • The Frank Sinatra Show. 1958. ABC television series.
  • But Not For Me. 1959. NBC television series.
  • Let no Man Write My Epitaph. 1960. Columbia Pictures. Directed by Philip Leacock.
  • All My Life. 1966. Directed by Bruce Bailey. (short).
  • The Danny Kaye Show. 1966. CBS television series.

Ethel Waters

  • On With the Show. 1929. Vitaphone. Directed by Alan Crosland.
  • Rufus Jones for President. 1933. Vitaphone 1553. Directed by Roy Mack.
  • Change Your Luck. 1933. Van Buren Corporation. Directed by Ray McCarey.
  • Bubbling Over. 1934. Magna Pictures Corporation. Directed by Leigh Jason.
  • Gift of Gab. 1934. Universal. Directed by Karl Freund.
  • Tales of Manhattan. 1942. Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Julien Devivier.
  • Cairo. 1942. MGM. Directed by W.S. Van Dyke.
  • Ride Em Cowboy. 1942. Universal. Directed by Arthur Lubin.
  • Cabin in the Sky. 1943. MGM. Directed by Vincent Minelli.
  • Pinky. 1949. Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Elia Kazan.
  • The Jackie Gleason Show. 1952. CBS television series.

Hazel Scott

  • Something to Shout About. 1943. Columbia Pictures. Directed by Gregory Ratoff.
  • I Dood It. 1943. MGM. Directed by Vincente Minnelli.
  • The Heat’s On. 1943. Columbia Pictures. Directed Gregory Ratoff.
  • GI Movie Weekly: Singing with the Stars I. Ca. 1944.
  • GI Movie Weekly: Singing with the Stars II. Ca. 1944.
  • Broadway Rhythm. 1944. MGM. Directed by Roy Del Ruth.
  • Rhapsody in Blue. 1945. Warner Bros. Directed by Irving Rapper.
  • Toast of the Town (The Ed Sullivan Show). 1949. CBS Television series.
  • Toast of the Town (The Ed Sullivan Show). 1950. CBS Television series.
  • The Hazel Scott Show. 1950. DuMont Television Network.
  • Songs for Sale. 1952.
  • Presenting Hazel Scott with her Trio: March of Dimes 1955. 1955. With Charlie Mingus and Rudie Nichols on drums.
  • The Night Affair (Lé Desordre et la Nuit). 1958. Directed by Gilles Grangier.

The Glamourettes (Glamorettes)

  • Swing it, Mr. Schubert.1942. RCM Productions. Featuring Carol Adams and the Glamourettes. Produced by Sam Coslow. Directed by Josef Berne. Distributed by Soundies Distributing Company of America, Inc.

Green’s Twentieth Century Faydetts

  • Green’s Twentieth Century Faydetts. 1929. Vitaphone 710.
  • Green’s Flapperettes “Leading Girl’s Jazz Band” (Original Title: Green’s Twentieth Century Faydetts no. 2). 1929. Vitaphone 711. Bandleader Nina Grey.

Harry Wayman’s Debutantes

  • Harry Wayman and His Debutantes. 1927. Vitaphone 2261.

Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears

  • Ladies That Play.1934. Paramount Pictures, Inc. Directed byFred Waller.
  • A Special Collection from the Swing Time Video Collection, Complete Performances: 1937-1965, No.122. Swing-Time Video, Inc.
  • Accent on Girls. 1936. Paramount Pictures, Inc. Directed byFred Waller. Also published by National Telefilm Associates.
  • The Big Broadcast of 1936. 1935. Paramount Productions, Inc. Presented by Adolph Zukor, produced by Benjamin Glazer, directed byNorman Taurog.
  • Fashions in Music. 1935-1936. Melodear’s Trio.
  • Feminine Rhythm. 1935. Paramount Pictures. Directed byFred Waller.
  • Swing, Hutton, Swing. 1937. Paramount Pictures. Producer Adolph Zuckor; DirectorFred Waller. Sponsored by Western Electric. An NTA Release. (Have this one on DVD)
  • Ever Since Venus (male band). 1944. Columbia Pictures Corp. Produced by Rudolph Flothow, directed by Arthur Dreifuss.
  • The Ina Ray Hutton Show. 1951-52. KTLA Television series.
  • The Ina Ray Hutton Show. 1956. NBC television series. Produced by Guild Films.
  • Girl Time. 1955-56. Hollywood: Purex Show. Television series.
  • Jazz Ball. (1958) 1991. NIA Pictures, Inc. Compiled by Herbert L. Bregstein. Republic Pictures Corporation (Television Program). Published in 1991 by Pearl Entertainment, Inc.
  • Meet the Bandleaders, No. 105. 1984.Swing-Time Video, Inc. Producer Waller Heider; director Leslie Roush. Video also published by Kartes Video Communications under the title The Big Bands. This video contains selected numbers from Accent on Girls and Swing Hutton Swing.
  • New Deal Rhythm. (1930-1937) 1995. Hollywood’s Attic. “Star Reporter” features Ina Ray Hutton and the Melodears.

The Ingenues

  • The Band Beautiful. 1928. Vitaphone 2572.
  • Syncopating Sweeties. 1928. Vitaphone 2573.
  • Maids and Music. 1937. RKO. Produced by Milton Schwarzwald. Pictoreels later released a segment for Soundies. Featuring Ray Fabing’s Ingenues with Janice Walker and Bernice Parks.
  • Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs. MGM 1936. Produced by Louis Lewyn. Directed by Roy Rowland. Featuring the Fanchonettes, the (Hollywood) Ingenues, Downey Sisters, Lind Hayes, Betty Grable and others.

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm

  • Harlem Jam Session. 1946. Associated Artists Productions. Photographed by Don Malkames. Edited by Theodore Markavic.
  • How ‘Bout that Jive. 1947. Associated Artists Productions. Produced by William D. Alexander.
  • International sweethearts of Rhythm, featuring Anna Mae Winburn. 1946. Associated Artists Productions. Produced by William Alexander.
  • International Sweethearts of Rhythm, America’s Hottest All-Girl Band. 1986. Jezebel Productions. Produced by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss.
  • Jump Children.1946.An Alexander Production. Produced by William D. Alexander. Directed by Leonard Anderson.
  • She’s Crazy with the Heat.1946. An Alexander Production. Produced by William D. Alexander. Directed by Leonard Anderson.
  • That Man of Mine (Soundie).1946. An Alexander Production. Produced by William D. Alexander. Directed by Leonard Anderson.
  • That Man of Mine. 1946. Associated Producers of Negro Motion Pictures, Inc. An Alexander Production. Produced by William D. Alexander. Directed by Leonard Anderson.
  • Tiny & Ruby, Hell Divin’s Women. 1988. Produced by Greta Schiller and Andrea Wiess. New York: Cinema Guild.

Jean Ranking’s Blue Bells Orchestra

  • The All’ Girl Revue. 1929. Vitaphone 818. Featuring Lillian Price, Betty Lou Webb, Ellen Bunting with De Paca and Kazvlki. Directed by Murray Roth.

Lena Horne

  • The Duke is Tops. 1938. Million Dollar Pictures. Directed by William Nolte.
  • Panama Hattie. 1942. MGM. Directed by Norman McLeod.
  • Cabin in the Sky. 1943. MGM. Produced by Arthur Freed. Directed by Vincente Minnelli.
  • Stormy Weather. 1943. Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Andrew L. Stone. Produced by William LeBaron.
  • Swing Fever. 1943. MGM. Directed by Tim Whelan.
  • I Dood It. 1943. MGM. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Produced by Jack Cummings.
  • Thousands Cheer. 1943. MGM. Directed by Goerge Sidney. Produced by Joseph Pasternak.
  • Boogie Woogie Dream. 1944. Official Films. Soundies Distributing Corporation of America, Inc.
  • Two Girls and a Sailor. 1944. MGM. Directed by Richard Thorpe. Produced by Joe Pasternak.
  • Sing with the Stars II. Ca. 1944.
  • Singing with the Stars III. Ca. 1944.
  • GI Movie Weekly: Singing with the Stars III. Ca. 1944.
  • Broadway Rhythm. 1944. MGM. Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Produced by Jack Cummings.
  • Harlem Hotshots. 1945. Metropolitan Films. Directed by Spencer Williams.
  • Mantan Messes Up. 1946. Toddy Pictures Co. Directed by Sam Newfield.
  • Ziegfeld Follies. 1946. MGM. Directed by Vincente Minnelli.
  • Till the Clouds Roll By. 1946. MGM. Produced by Arthur Freed. Directed by Richard Whorf.
  • Studio Visit. 1946. MGM. Produced by Pete Smith.
  • Words and Music. 1948. MGM. Directed by Morman Taurog.
  • The Colgate Comedy Hour. 1951. NBC television series.
  • Duchess of Idaho. 1950. MGM. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
  • Toast of the Town (The Ed Sullivan Show). 1951. CBS television Series.
  • Your Show of Shows. 1951. NBC television series.
  • Your Show of Shows. 1953. NBC television series.
  • “What’s My Line?” 1953. CBS television series.
  • Music 55. 1955. Television series. Hosted by Stan Kenton.
  • Meet Me in Las Vegas. 1956. MGM. Directed by Roy Rowland.
  • Here’s to the Ladies. 1957-1958. Featuring Frank Sinatra and Lena Horne. ABC television series.
  • Toast of the Town (The Ed Sullivan Show). 1957. CBS television series.
  • The Heart of Show Business. 1957. Variety Clubs International. Directed by Ralph Staub.
  • “What’s My Line?” 1958. CBS television series.
  • The Steve Allen Show. 1958. NBC television series.
  • Sunday Night at the London Palladium. 1959. Television series.
  • The DuPont Show of the Week. 1961. NBC television series.
  • The Jack Parr Program. 1963. NBC television series.
  • The Judy Garland Show. 1963. CBS television series.
  • The Perry Como Show. 1958-1966. NBC television series
  • The Andy Williams Show. 1966. NBC television series.
  • The Merv Griffin Show. 1967. CBS television series.
  • The Dean Martin Show. 1967-69. NBC television series.
  • The Bell Telephone Hour. 1965. NBC television series.
  • Death of a Gunfighter. 1969. Universal. Directed by Don Siegel and Robert Totten.
  • Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in. 1968-69. Television series.
  • Kraft Music Hall. 1970. Television series.

Lorraine Page Orchestra

  • Class in Swing. 1940. Universal. With Lorraine Page and her Modernettes, and the Music Maids Directed by Larry Ceballos.
  • Darn That Dream. 1940. Soundie: Globe Productions Inc. Featuring Martha Mears and Bill Roberts.
  • Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. 1940. Soundie: Globe Productions, Inc. Directed by H.L. Reginald. With the Music Maids, Stearns & Deane, and the Lorraine Page Orchestra.
  • Six Hits and a Miss. 1945. Soundie: Soundies Distributing Corporation of America.

The Maxwell Girls

  • On a Sunday Afternoon.1941.Produced by Fred Waller, Directed by John Primi. Cast: The Maxwell Girls, Robert Williams. Recorded by the Connie Maxwell Orchestra.
  • Who Threw The Overalls In Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder? Date unknown. Soundies Distributing Corps of America. Later released on 16mm home movie reel as part of the “Songs Of The Irish” collection by Castle Films.

The Melody Maids

  • In Love with a Song.1941.A Cameo Production. Produced by Sam Coslow. Directed by Roy Mack. With the Melody Maids, Gene Grounds, Charles Baron and Joan Blair. Recorded by Bobby Sherwood and His Orchestra.

Minoco Maids of Melody

  • I’m Comin’ Virginia.1942. A Minoco Production. Featuring Aileen Shirley and Her Minoco Maids of Melody.

Peggy Gilbert’s All-Girl Band

  • Politics. 1931. MGM. Directed by Charles Reisner.
  • The Wet Parade. 1932. MGM. Directed by Victor Fleming.
  • Melody for Two. 1937. Warner Bros. Directed by Louis King.
  • The Great Waltz. 1938. MGM. Directed by Julien Duvivier.
  • Start Cheering. 1938. Columbia. Directed by Albert S. Rogell.

Peggy Lee

  • Stage Door Canteen. 1943. United Artists. Directed by Frank Borzage.
  • The Powers Girl. 1943. United Artists. Directed by Norman McLeod.
  • Banquet on a Melody. 1946. Short Subject.
  • Jasper’s in a Jam. 1946. Paramount Pictures (U.M. & M. TV Corporation). A George Pal Puppetoon. Animation by George Pal. Music by Charlie Barnet and vocal by Peggy Lee.
  • Midnight Serenade. 1947. Paramount Musical Parade Featurette Series # 4, title #5. Directed by Alvin Ganzer. Produced by Harry Grey.
  • Hour Glass. 1946 and (1948). NBC.
  • Toast of the Town: The Ed Sullivan Show. 1948 and 1950. CBS television series.
  • The Colgate Comedy Hour. 1951. NBC television series.
  • Duchess of Idaho. 1950. MGM. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
  • Toast of the Town (The Ed Sullivan Show). 1951. CBS television series.
  • Your Show of Shows. 1951. NBC television series.
  • Your Show of Shows. 1953. NBC television series.
  • “What’s My Line?” 1953. CBS television series.
  • Music 55. 1955. Television series. Hosted by Stan Kenton.
  • Meet Me in Las Vegas. 1956. MGM. Directed by Roy Rowland.
  • Here’s to the Ladies. 1957-58. Featuring Frank Sinatra and Lena Horne. ABC television series.
  • Toast of the Town (The Ed Sullivan Show). 1957. CBS Television Series
  • The Heart of Show Business. 1957. Variety Clubs International. Directed by Ralph Staub.
  • “What’s My Line?” 1958. CBS television series.
  • The Steve Allen Show. 1958. NBC television series.
  • Sunday Night at the London Palladium. 1959. Television series.
  • The DuPont Show of the Week. 1961. NBC television series.
  • The Jack Parr Program. 1963. NBC television series.
  • The Judy Garland Show. 1963. CBS television series.
  • The Perry Como Show. 1958-1966. NBC television series
  • The Andy Williams Show. 1966. Television series.
  • The Merv Griffin Show. 1967. Television series.
  • The Dean Martin Show. 1967-69. Television series.
  • The Bell Telephone Hour. 1965. Television series.
  • Death of a Gunfighter. 1969. Universal. Directed by Don Siegel and Robert Totten.
  • Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in. 1968-69. Television series.
  • Kraft Music Hall. 1970. Television series.

Phil Spitalny and His Hour of Charm Orchestra

  • Big City Fantasy. 1934. The Vitaphone Corporation. Distributed by Warner Bros.
  • Meet the Maestros. 1938. Paramount Pictures.
  • Moments of Charm. 1939. Paramount Pictures.
  • Musical Charmers. 1936. Paramount Pictures. Directed by Fred Waller.
  • Phil Spitalny and His Musical Queens. 1934. Vitaphone 1719. Directed by Joseph Henabery. Re-released on Cavalcade of Vitaphone Shorts, v.2.
  • Phil Spitalny’s All-Girl Orchestra. 1935. Vitaphone 1850. Directed by Joseph Henabery.
  • Sirens of Syncopation. 1935. Re-released on U.M. & M. T.V. Corp. Produced by Adolph Zuckor. Directed by Fred Waller.
  • Here Come the Co-Eds.1945. Universal Pictures, Inc. Produced byJohn Grant, directed byJean Yarbrough.
  • Letter from Iran. Army Navy Screen Magazine #22. Selection from Oklahoma “People Will Say we’re In Love.”
  • When Johnny Comes Marching Home. 1943. Universal Pictures Company, Inc. Produced byBernard W. Burton, directed byCharles Lamont.

Rita Rio (Donna Drake) and Her Mistresses of Rhythm

  • Adios.1941. Cast Allan Baldwin, Carlos Fernando and His Mexican Orchestra.
  • Feed the Kitty. 1941. Soundie: Globe Productions.
  • Flying Feet (La Cucaracha). 1941. Distributed by the Soundies Company of American, Inc.I Look at You. Cast Dona Drake, Alan Ladd. Also re-released on Leonard Maltin’s Movie Memories; v.1: “The 1940s Music Machine” (1990).
  • Gals and Gallons. 1939. Universal short subject.
  • Pan Americonga. 1941. Rita Rio with male band. Cast Allan Baldwin, Miguel Alvarez. Recorded by John Torrence Orchestra. Also re-released on Leonard Maltin’s Movie Memories; v.4: “Big Band Swing” (1990).
  • Rita Rio and Her Orchestra. 1939. Warner Bros. short subject. 
  • Sweet Shoe.  Date Unknown. RKO. Produced by Milton Schwarzwald. Later released in 16mm by Pictoreels.  This was also re-edited into two Soundies: “Sticks and Stones” and “Flying Feet /La Cucaracha”.

Sophie Tucker

  • Honky Tonk. 1929. Warner Bros. Directed by Lloyd Bacon.
  • Gay Love. 1934. British Lion Film Corporation. Directed by Leslie Hilscott.
  • Paramount Headliner: Broadway Highlights no. 1. 1935. Paramount. Directed by Fred Waller.
  • Starlight. 1936. BBC. Variety television program.
  • Follow the Boys. 1944. Universal. Directed by Edward Sutherland.
  • Sensations of 1945. 1944. United. Directed by Andrew Stone.
  • Screensnap Shots: The Great Showman. 1950.
  • Four Star Revue (All-Star Revue). 1953. Television series.
  • Toast of the Town: The Ed Sullivan Show. 1951-1965. CBS television series.
  • A Star is Born World Premier.1954. NBC television series.
  • The Heart of Show business. 1957.
  • The Jerry Lewis Show. 1958. NBC television series.
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. 1963. NBC television series.

Thelma White and Her All-Girl Orchestra

  • April in Paris.1946. An RCM Production. Producer Ben Hersh; Director Dave Gould. Soundies Distributing Corporation of America, Inc.
  • Hollywood Boogie.1946. RCM Production, Inc. Produced by Ben Hersh. Directed by Dave Gould. Soundies Distributing Company of America, Inc.
  • Take it and Git.1946. An RCM Production. Produced by Ben Hersh. Directed by Dave Gould.
  • Zoot.1946. Featuring Ellen Connor. An RCM Production. Produced by Ben Hersh. Directed by Dave Gould. Re-released by Official Films.

Valaida Snow

  • Pieges. 1939. French film starring Maurice Chevalier. Directed by Robert Siodmak. Produced by Michel Safra. With Ananias Berry
  • L’Alibi. 1939. French Film.
  • If Only You Knew. MGM. Directed by Dave Gould and Ben Hersh. With the Ali Baba Trio.
  • Patience and Fortitude. 1946. MGM. Directed by Dave Gould and Ben Hersh. With the Ali Baba Trio.

Virgil White and his Musical Sweethearts

  • Virgil Whyte and His All-Girl Bands: USO Tours, 1944-1946. Vols. 1-4. 1993. Privately Produced.

Some Liked It Hot - Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959