Las Vegas Nights

Mar 28, 1941

1h 30m

★ 5.5

SWING-TOWN! SONG-TOWN! LAUGH-TOWN!...where nights are 24 hours long and fun never ends!

Overview

A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Las Vegas Nights Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Himself

Tommy Dorsey

Norma Jennings

Constance Moore

Stu Grant

Bert Wheeler

Bill Stevens

Phil Regan

Patsy Grant

Virginia Dale

Herself

Jo Stafford

Mildred Jennings

Lillian Cornell

Katy

Betty Brewer

'Red' Donahue

William 'Red' Donahue

Hank Bevis

Hank Ladd

William Stevens Sr.

Henry Kolker

Gloria Stafford

Francetta Malloy

Set in 1947, Knights of Swing is a feature film that chronicles a group of young jazz musicians whose dream is to form a “really swingin’ Big Band”. Unfortunately, things prove much more complicated when the community objects to the diversity of the band. Alliances form, and lines are drawn. What follows is soul searching, uplifting, and through music, our story illuminates forgiveness, healing and unconditional love.

No Image Available

0.0

Hoosier Holiday

Sep 13, 1943

During World War II three brothers go to enlist in the Air Force, but since they're farmers they're told they're needed at home more than in the service. Determined to join up, they enlist the aid of a pretty young girl whose father is head of the local draft board.

0.0

Vimazoluleka

Mar 26, 2017

Year 1966 Vimazoluleka is the first play that Levy Rossell staged at the Ateneo de Caracas (Quinta Ramia) starting on August 18, 1966. He moved to the auditorium of the Faculty of Engineering and from there to the Aula Magna. He won a scholarship to study in New York and staged it in English for five months off Broadway. He returned to Caracas and showed it throughout the 70s and 90s. He gave it that title from the first words of the names of his close classmates: Vicente Amengual, María Angelina Rodríguez, Zobeida Ramos, Luis Kolster, Levy Rossell and Carlos Hernandez.

5.5

What's Cookin'?

Feb 20, 1942

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.

0.0

The Prisoner of Swing

Jun 11, 1938

Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king.

No Image Available

0.0

Somewhat Secret

Mar 29, 1939

At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely punished. Complications develop when she finds out that her boyfriend, a chemistry professor at the school, is also a well-known swing bandleader.

3.8

Every Sunday

Nov 28, 1936

Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from happening, Judy and Edna gather a crowd the following Sunday; and to keep its attention, they themselves perform with the orchestra. Edna sings an aria and Judy sings 'Americana'.

0.0

Ella Fitzgerald Swings

Nov 25, 1965

Presenting the world's greatest jazz singer accompanied by The Tommy Flanagan Trio.

6.3

Varsity Show

Sep 4, 1937

Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.

2.0

Rhythm Inn

Feb 11, 1951

A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's female singer do the clerk's songs at a local club if he will let the band "borrow" their instruments at night. The clerk's girlfriend, however, thinks that the band singer is after more than her boyfriend's songs.

5.0

Swing Fever

Nov 1, 1943

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

6.0

Dance Crazy in Hollywood

Jan 1, 1990

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

3.7

I'll Remember April

Apr 1, 1945

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.

5.3

Spreadin' the Jam

Oct 27, 1945

A young woman who is unable to pay her rent gets some unexpected help when the other tenants throw a last-minute rent party in her apartment. In the process, they all charm the landlady out of a year's rent. The entire story is told in song (swing music) and dance (Jitterbug, Lindy Hop etc.).

No Image Available

0.0

A# ! El Musical

Invalid Date

Sara and Alberto, who in their youth made music for love, with the passage of time are besieged by boredom, they will look for more spice in their lives but... With a third party?..."

6.2

Naughty But Nice

Jun 23, 1939

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.

8.0

Hi-De-Ho

Feb 20, 1937

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon passing by the apartment hears him singing and advises him go to his wife's gypsy tea room. As she reads the tea leaves, she sees situations which lead to Cab and his orchestra performing musical numbers.

5.0

Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'

Feb 17, 1940

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

6.5

Symphony of Swing

Dec 30, 1939

Artie Shaw and his orchestra perform four popular songs, "Alone Together", "Jeepers Creepers", "Deep Purple", and "Lady Be Good".

4.0

A Singing Girl

Mar 9, 1942

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.