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Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers - all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson. King of Jazz offers a fascinating snapshot of the way mainstream American popular culture viewed itself at the dawn of the 1930s. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Paul Whiteman
USA
Best movies:
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
John Boles
USA
Best movies:
The Last Warning (1929)
Frankenstein (1931)
King of Jazz (1930)
Laura La Plante
USA
Best movies:
The Last Warning (1929)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
King of Jazz (1930)
Jeanette Loff
USA
Best movies:
King of Jazz (1930)
Slim Summerville
USA
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Love Is News (1937)
The Front Page (1931)
Kathryn Crawford
USA
Best movies:
King of Jazz (1930)
Carla Laemmle
USA
Best movies:
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
King of Jazz (1930)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Stanley Smith
USA
Best movies:
King of Jazz (1930)
Dive Bomber (1941)
Paramount on Parade (1930)
Bing Crosby
USA
Best movies:
The Country Girl (1954)
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
Charles Irwin
Ireland
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Walter Brennan
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Fury (1936)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Richard Cromwell
USA
Best movies:
Jezebel (1938)
King of Jazz (1930)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Joan Marsh
USA
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Anna Karenina (1935)
King of Jazz (1930)
Nell O'Day
USA
Best movies:
King of Jazz (1930)
Geraldine Dvorak
USA
Best movies:
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
Dishonored (1931)
King of Jazz (1930)
Bela Lugosi
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Ninotchka (1939)
The Phantom Creeps (1949) (TV movie) - a.f.
Marcia Mae Jones
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
These Three (1936)
The Way We Were (1973)
Yola d'Avril
France
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Captain Blood (1935)
Otis Harlan
USA
Best movies:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Bambi (1942)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Joan Barclay
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
These Three (1936)
King of Jazz (1930)