Tommy Dorsey

Tommy Dorsey

Born: November 19, 1905
Died: November 26, 1956
in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Tommy Dorsey...

This Is Elvis
Title: This Is Elvis
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1981
Type: Movie
Though several actors portray Elvis Presley at different stages of his life, this documentary is comprised mostly of actual performance footage and interviews with Elvis, his fans and those close to him. This biographical docu-drama features rare footage of Elvis and dramatically recreated scenes from Elvis' life.
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Title: That's Entertainment, Part II
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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Title: Stage Show
Released: July 3, 1954
Type: TV
Stage Show was a popular music variety series on American television originally hosted on alternate weeks by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Produced by Jackie Gleason, the CBS-TV show included the first national television appearances by Elvis Presley. The series began as a one-hour show on July 3, 1954 as a summer replacement for The Jackie Gleason Show. Gleason brought it back in the fall of 1955 as a half-hour show and scheduled it from 8–8:30 p.m. ET before his own program on Saturday nights. In 1956, Jack Carter, a frequent guest, became the permanent host. The June Taylor Dancers made regular appearances. Bobby Darin made his national TV debut on the program in early 1956, singing "Rock Island Line". The show's final telecast was September 18, 1956.
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Disc Jockey
Title: Disc Jockey
Character: Himself
Released: September 30, 1951
Type: Movie
National DJs help a promoter make an unknown girl a star, to prove the power of radio over TV.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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A Song Is Born
Title: A Song Is Born
Character: Tommy Dorsey
Released: October 19, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
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The Fabulous Dorseys
Title: The Fabulous Dorseys
Character: Tommy Dorsey
Released: February 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
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Thrill of a Romance
Title: Thrill of a Romance
Character: Tommy Dorsey
Released: May 23, 1945
Type: Movie
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
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The Great Morgan
Title: The Great Morgan
Character: Tommy Dorsey (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
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Broadway Rhythm
Title: Broadway Rhythm
Character: Tommy Dorsey
Released: January 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.
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Girl Crazy
Title: Girl Crazy
Character: Tommy Dorsey
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...
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Swing Fever
Title: Swing Fever
Character: Himself
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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Swing Fever
Title: Swing Fever
Character: Tommy Dorsey (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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I Dood It
Title: I Dood It
Character: Tommy Dorsey (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.
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Du Barry was a Lady
Title: Du Barry was a Lady
Character: Tommy Dorsey
Released: August 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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Presenting Lily Mars
Title: Presenting Lily Mars
Character: Tommy Dorsey
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Ship Ahoy
Title: Ship Ahoy
Character: Tommy Dorsey
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
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Birth of the Blues
Title: Birth of the Blues
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
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Las Vegas Nights
Title: Las Vegas Nights
Character: Himself
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.
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A Night in a Dormitory
Title: A Night in a Dormitory
Character: Trombone Player (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
The adventures of a schoolgirl in a nightclub as related by her to her dormitory sisters.