Bandleader Movies

Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant...

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while...

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life...

The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him,...

The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood...

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader...

His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic...

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives...

In this MGM Miniature Musical, Harry Owens and his orchestra perform several song numbers.

A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.

As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up,...

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

For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new,...

The Documentary centers around Zappa at home, and on Tour. The amazing thing is that Zappa allowed a guy with a camera to film the band at the...

A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.

An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.