King of Jazz (1930)
April 20, 1930Release Date
King of Jazz (1930)
April 20, 1930Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Paul Whiteman
Self
John Boles
Vocalist ('Song of the Dawn'
Laura La Plante
Editor ('Ladies of the Press')
Kathryn Crawford
Fourth Reporter ('Ladies of the Press')
Jeanette Loff
Vocalist ('It Happened in Monterey'
Carla Laemmle
Chorine (as Beth Laemmle)
Stanley Smith
Bridegroom ('Bridal Veil' / 'A Bench in the Park')
Charles Irwin
Himself, Announcer / Soldier ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front')
Glenn Tryon
Executive ('In Conference')
George Chiles
Dancer ('It Happened in Monterey' / Vocalist 'A Bench in the Park' / 'Ragamuffin Romeo')
Jack White
Jack White
Frank Leslie
Quartet Lead Singer ('Nellie')
William Kent
General ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front')
Walter Brennan
Desk Sergeant ('Springtime') / Soldier ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front') / Waiter ('Oh! Forevermore!') / Front End of H...
Churchill Ross
Quartet Member ('Nellie')
John Arledge
First Pianist at Giant Piano ('Rhapsody in Blue') / Quartet Member ('Nellie') (as Johnson Arledge)
Slim Summerville
Automobile Owner ('Springtime')
Al Norman
Rubber Legs Dancer ('Happy Feet')
Jacques Cartier
Voodoo Dancer ('Rhapsody in Blue')
Nell O'Day
Dancer
Harry Barris
One of the Rhythm Boys
Marion Stattler
Specialty Dancer 'Ragamuffin Romeo' / 'Melting Pot'
Don Rose
Specialty Dancer 'Ragamuffin Romeo'
Bing Crosby
One of the Rhythm Boys
Bobbe Brox
Bobbe (as The Brox Sisters)
John Murray Anderson
Director
Harry Ruskin
Writer
Patricia Brox
Kathlyn (as The Brox Sisters)
Edward T. Lowe Jr.
Writer
Lorayne Brox
Lorraine (as The Brox Sisters)
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer
Yola d'Avril
Automobile Owner's Wife ('Springtime') / Marie ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front') (uncredited)
Alfonso Corelli
Composer
Marcia Mae Jones
Child ('Bridal Veil') (uncredited)
Jerome Ash
Cinematographer
Bela Lugosi
Emcee - Hungarian Version
Hal Mohr
Cinematographer
Joan Marsh
Blonde ('A Bench in the Park') (uncredited)
Ray Rennahan
Cinematographer
Robert Carlisle
Editor
Herman Rosse
Art Direction / Costume Design
Jack Pierce
Makeup Artist
Roswell A. Hoffmann
Special Effects Assistant
Robert Ross
Assistant Director
Thomas F. O'Neill
Assistant Art Director
C. Roy Hunter
Recording Supervision
Eddie Ellsworth
Still Photographer
Walter Lantz
Animation
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 20, 1930
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Budget$2,000,000
Genres
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Wiki.
King of Jazz is a 1930 American pre-Code color musical film starring Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. The film title refers to Whiteman's popular cultural appellation. At the time the film was made, "jazz", to the general public, meant jazz-influenced syncopated dance music heard on phonograph records, on radio broadcasts, and in dance halls. In the 1920s Whiteman signed and featured white jazz musicians including Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang (both are seen and heard in the film), Bix Beiderbecke (who had left before filming began), Frank Trumbauer, and others.
King of Jazz was filmed in the early two-color Technicolor process and was produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. for Universal Pictures. The film featured several songs sung on camera by the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris), as well as off-camera solo vocals by Crosby during the opening credits and, very briefly, during a cartoon sequence. King of Jazz still survives in a near-complete color print and is not a lost film, unlike many contemporary musicals that now exist only either in incomplete form or as black-and-white reduction copies. There is a possibility that one of the people appearing in the film was the great-uncle of Kurt Cobain (the late vocalist and guitarist of Nirvana).In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".