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Movies: Best "bandleader" Movies


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Mallrats(1995)

R
| 1h 34min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 528 votes)

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

Flying Down to Rio(1933)

3.2/5 (with 25 votes)

A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

The Eddy Duchin Story(1956)

NR
| 2h 3min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

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

Orchestra Wives(1942)

NR
| 1h 38min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

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, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.

Something to Sing About(1937)

NR
| 1h 33min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

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 studio boss.

Stolen Harmony(1935)

NR
| 1h 20min | Crime

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.

You Were Meant for Me(1948)

1h 32min | Music
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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

Pacific Paradise(1937)

10min | Music

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

Freddie Rich and His Orchestra(1938)

11min | Music
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A musical short subject in which band leader Freddie Rich conducts three musical numbers with his orchestra, with solos by Nan Wynn with the Three Symphonettes. In the midst of the radio broadcast on which the band is performing, a gangly guitarist named Joe Sodja interrupts and asks to perform.

Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'(1940)

10min | Music
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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

Sitting on the Moon(1936)

1h 6min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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

Directed by Ralph Staub

Laugh It Off(1940)

1h 18min | Music
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

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, his commanding officer orders him to perform for the troops.

Directed by John Baxter - With Tommy Trinder
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Playmates(1941)

NR
| 1h 36min | Music, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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 Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.

Directed by David Butler - With John Barrymore

Let's Make Music(1941)

1h 24min | Music, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

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

Directed by Leslie Goodwins - With Bob Crosby

Henry Busse and His Orchestra(1940)

10min | Music
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This one-reel musical short, part of the WB/Vitaphone Melody Master series, features the music of trumpet-player and orchestra leader Henry Busse and his Orchestra, playing their own arrangements of various popular songs of the time...or in the Warners' song library. Those include "Wang Wang Blues," "Hot Lips" and "Along the Santa Fe Trail.".

Off the Record(1936)

11min | Music

This musical short salutes bandleader B.A. Rolfe on his 40th anniversary in show business.

Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott(2010)

1h 39min | Documentary, Music
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

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

Stan Kenton and His Orchestra(1947)

10min | Music
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.

Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra(1938)

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs. For the complete list of songs, check the soundtrack listing.