Connee Boswell

Connee Boswell

Born: December 3, 1907
Died: October 11, 1976
in Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Movies for Connee Boswell...

Title: Pete Kelly's Blues
Released: April 5, 1959
Type: TV
Pete Kelly's Blues was a television series starring William Reynolds that aired in 1959. It was created by Jack Webb, based on his 1951 radio series of the same name.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Swing Parade of 1946
Title: Swing Parade of 1946
Character: Herself
Released: March 19, 1946
Type: Movie
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
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Syncopation
Title: Syncopation
Character: Connee Boswell
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
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Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Title: Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Character: Polly
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her roommate, Gwen Abbott, is hired to be secretary to Top Rumson, the show's financial backer. Gwen tells Cindy that the director, Lloyd Lloyd, and composer, Dick Rayburn, have been sent to the South on a talent search for a classic Southern belle type to star in the show, although their shows usually feature Myra Stanhope, an actress whose style is hopelessly inappropriate for this show. Desperate for work, Cindy returns to her aunt Lily Lou and uncle Jefferson Davis Bethany's home in the South and schemes to get Lloyd and Rayburn to audition her.
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The Star Reporter in Hollywood
Title: The Star Reporter in Hollywood
Character: Connee Boswell
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Part of Paramount Headliner: Hollywood Star Reporter series
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Title: Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Character: Connee Boswell
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
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It's All Yours
Title: It's All Yours
Character: Singer
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco. Linda Gray is a mouse-like secretary to the elder Barnes who has fallen in love with Jimmy, but he favors actress Constance "Connie" Marlowe. Mr. Barnes dies and leaves everything to Linda but he has urged his partner, Alexander Duncan, to plan things so that Jimmy and Linda will get married. Coached by Duncan, Linda accepts the inheritance and announces that she is departing for New York on a wild spending spree. He tells Jimmy that the will can be broken but only after many months and he suggests that Jimmy follow Linda and curb her spending or there won't be any money left. In New York, Linda hires Jimmy as her private secretary. Connie also arrives in New York, as does the ingenious Baron Rene de Montigny with the intention of marrying the wealthy Miss Gray.
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Artists & Models
Title: Artists & Models
Character: Self
Released: August 4, 1937
Type: Movie
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
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Moulin Rouge
Title: Moulin Rouge
Character: Connee Boswell
Released: January 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go to Raquel with a plan--unbeknownst to her husband, "Raquel" is actually her sister, and her plan is for them to switch places so she can fulfill her dream of going back on the stage. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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Sleepy Time Down South
Title: Sleepy Time Down South
Character: Connee Boswell
Released: November 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Fire chief Bimbo is called to a house on fire, and rescues the Boswell Sisters and their piano, who start performing "When It's Sleepy Time Down South".
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The Big Broadcast
Title: The Big Broadcast
Character: as The Boswell Sisters
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
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Rambling 'Round Radio Row #1
Title: Rambling 'Round Radio Row #1
Character: Connee Boswell
Released: June 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Jerry Wald has to write about radio, visiting Sid Gary gives him the tip it might be more easy for him to write this article at the radio station than at his newspaper office. At the studio they listen to the Boswell Sister's rehearsal, which is interupted by some not so friendly remarks by orchestra leader Abe Lyman, they listen at the door, where a Colonel Stoopnagel broadcast is prepared, as well as to the rehearsal of a new song for an broadcast by Kate Smith.