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Best of the big bands and swing [videorecording] / Kino International ; Paramount Pictures ; produced for video by Bret Wood.

Contributor Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977.

Imprint:New York, NY : Kino on Video, 2001.

Description1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Video release of musical shorts originally produced by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1939.

Note:Title from container and disc label.

Note:Bonus performances by Bob Willis and his Texas Playboys, Ginger Rogers & Jackie Oakie, Tallulah Bankhead, Kate Smith, Jeanetee MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Boswell Sisters.

Note:Blue of the night / Bing Crosby (1933) -- Musical Doctor / Rudy Vallee, Mae Questel (1932) -- Singapore Sue / Anna Chang, Cary Grant (1931) -- Office Blues / Ginger Rodgers (1930) -- Artie Shaw's class in swing / Artie Shaw (1939) -- Her future / Ethel Merman (1930) -- Lesson in love / Helen Kane (1931) -- Favorite melodies / Ruth Etting (1929) -- Meet the boyfriend / Lillian Roth (1920) -- Dream House / Bing Crosby (1932)

Note:Presents 10 musical shorts along with bonus performances providing an opportunity to see and hear the best in the big band era.

Note : PerformerBing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, Mae Questel, Cary Grant, Ann CHang, Ginger Rodgers, Artie Shaw, Ethel Merman, Helen Kane, Ruth Etting, Lillian Roth , Bob Wills, Tallulah Bankhead, Kate Smith, Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier.

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Contributor
Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977.
Vallée, Rudy, 1901-1986.
Questel, Mae, 1910-1998.
Chang, Anna.
Grant, Cary, 1904-1986.
Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995.
Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004.
Merman, Ethel.
Kane, Helen.
Etting, Ruth, 1897-1978.
Roth, Lillian, 1910-1980.
Kino International Corporation.
Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
Series Statement
Buhl Library Video Collection
Subject:
Swing (Music)
Big band music.
Popular music -- United States -- 1931-1940.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Short films.
Black and white films.
Musical films.
Short films.
Nonfiction films.
Other title
Best of big bands and swing.
Hollywood rythum.
Paramount musical shorts.
Best of the big bands & swing.
Blue of the night.
Musical Doctor.
Singapore Sue.
Office Blues.
Artie Shaw's class in swing.
Her future.
Lesson in Love.
Favorite melodies.
Meet the boyfriend.
Dream House.