Barney Bigard

Movies7

• Movie7.0

  DramaMusic

  A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.

  The Glenn Miller Story

  1954 · 169 votes

• Movie

  Music

  The Duke Ellington Orchestra performs 'C Jam Blues'.

  Jam Session

  1942

• Movie7.0

  MysteryThriller

  A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.

  Phantom Lady

  1944 · 138 votes

• Movie7.7

  DramaHistory

  Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't stay away from the music of the streets and workers. After he writes a theme song for a local politician, Gogo, a speakeasy singer, convinces Will to be her accompanist. Will is estranged from his father for many years while he writes and publishes many blues songs. At last the family is reunited when Gogo brings them to New York to see Will's music played by a symphony orchestra.

  St. Louis Blues

  1958 · 7 votes

• Movie5.3

  Comedy

  Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two men get stolen by Cleo, a charming thief. Once in Rome, the painter finds himself penniless and the dresser without the gown...

  Botta e risposta

  I'm in the Revue

  1950 · 9 votes

• Movie6.8

  MusicDrama

  A rising nineteen-year-old singer by the name of Billie Holiday made her screen debut in this musical landmark, which features Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing his symphonic jazz piece “A Rhapsody of Negro Life” set to scenes of everyday African American life.

  Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life

  1935 · 18 votes

• Movie6.3

  MusicDrama

  Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band. Sure enough, she collapses on stage...

  Black and Tan

  1929 · 36 votes