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

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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

Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim is a 1967 television special starring Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, accompanied by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. A truly memorable television event, the third annual special finds Frank joined by the dazzling Ella Fitzgerald in a historic pairing of the two preeminent vocal talents of the era. As if that weren't enough, Antonio Carlos Jobim accompanies Frank for an intimate medley of classics, including The Girl From Ipanema.

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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.

4.0

A Singing Girl

Mar 9, 1942

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

5.0

Double Deal

Dec 16, 1939

Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry store and turns the loot over to gang-boss Murray Howard. Later, Markey robs the safe, steals the jewelry, and, in order to get rid of his rival for Nita, frames the robbery on McCoy. The latter's big-brother thinks otherwise and, with Nita's help, sets out to prove it.

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

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.

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.

7.7

Bandstand

Jun 25, 2018

In 1945, as America's soldiers come home to ticker-tape parades and overjoyed families, Private First Class Donny Novitski, singer and songwriter, returns to rebuild his life with only the shirt on his back and a dream in his heart. When NBC announces a national competition to find the nation's next great musical superstars, inspiration strikes! Donny joins forces with a motley group of fellow veterans, forming a band unlike any the nation has ever seen. Along the way, they discover the power of music to face the impossible, find their voice and finally feel like they have a place to call home.

5.0

Swing Fever

Nov 1, 1943

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

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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.

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.

6.2

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.

4.0

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.

5.0

Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'

Feb 17, 1940

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

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.

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.

6.0

Hotel a la Swing

Mar 13, 1937

In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel.

0.0

Knights of Swing

Feb 1, 2023

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.

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.).

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.

Las Vegas Nights

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