Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

Aug 24, 1934

0h 10m

★ 6.4

Overview

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Zaz-zuh-zaz" and "The Lady with the Fan" at the Cotton Club in Harlem.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho Trailers

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Cast

Cab Calloway

Sam, train porter

Sidney Easton

Sam's wife

Fredi Washington

Cotton Club Performer (uncredited)

Ethel Moses

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