King of Jazz (1930)
With Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff, Bing Crosby, Harry Barris, Slim Summerville, Carla Laemmle
Directed by John Murray Anderson, Paul Fejos
King of Jazz is a 1930 American pre-Code color musical film starring Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. In the 1920s Whiteman signed and featured 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.
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