Tommy Dorsey - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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The Grass Harp (1995)

American Lifestyles (1987)

Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical (1982)

Snacka gar ju... (1981)

Disc Jockey (1951)

A Song Is Born (1948)

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Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Treat Me Rough

Say Amen, Somebody (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Highway To Heaven

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Grass Harp (1995)

American Lifestyles (1987)

Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical (1982)

Snacka gar ju... (1981)

Disc Jockey (1951)

A Song Is Born (1948)

The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)

The Great Morgan (1945)

Thrill of a Romance (1945)

Broadway Rhythm (1944)

Swing Fever (1944)

Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

Girl Crazy (1943)

Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

I Dood It (1943)

Las Vegas Nights--"The Last Frontier Town" (1941)

Music (Feature Film)

The Kitchen (2019)

The Kitchen (2019)

Elvis & Nixon (2016)

I Saw the Light (2015)

Me and Orson Welles (2009)

Music and Lyrics (2007)

GLORY ROAD (2006)

Being Julia (2004)

Hart's War (2002)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

The Cider House Rules (1999)

Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

The Grass Harp (1995)

Who's the Man? (1993)

Leap of Faith (1992)

Used People (1992)

Where the Heart Is (1990)

The Court-martial Of Jackie Robinson (1990)

The Exorcist III (1989)

Enemies, A Love Story (1989)

Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (1989)

Biloxi Blues (1988)

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Radio Days (1987)

The Color Purple (1985)

Interiors (1978)

Annie Hall (1977)

The Peanut Man (1947)

Cast (Special)

The Story of Gospel Music (1997)

The Tunes of Tommy Dorsey: A Sentimental Journey (1994)

Sentimental Swing: The Music of Tommy Dorsey (1987)

Music (Special)

Big Band Ballroom Bash (1992)

Music (Short)

I Should Care (1945)

Music (TV Mini-Series)

Something to Sing About (2000)

The Ernest Green Story (1993)

The Firing Squad (1991)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Ship Ahoy - Kapralik Trade Ad

Here is a trade ad for MGM's Ship Ahoy (1943), starring Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton. The art is by mixed-media caricaturist Jaques Kapralik. Trade Ads were placed by studios in industry magazines like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

Du Barry Was a Lady - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Here are a few photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of MGM's Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Zero Mostel.

Videos

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Treat Me Rough With Tommy Dorsey and orchestra, George and Ira Gershwin's Treat Me Rough, first by June Allyson as a specialty, then by youthful playboy Danny (Mickey Rooney), about to be sent to college out west, in the lavish MGM Freed Unit musical Girl Crazy, 1943, also starring Judy Garland.

Say Amen, Somebody (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Highway To Heaven From a St. Louis (technically St. Charles, Mo.) radio station tribute to a service honoring the main subject of the documentary, singer Willie Mae Ford Smith, at Rev. William Collins Jr.’s Antioch Baptist Church, and a song composed by the also-featured Thomas A. Dorsey, led by an O’Neal twin (Edward or Edgar?) in Say Amen, Somebody — The Good News Musical, 1982.

Say Amen, Somebody (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Open, I Have A Lord To Glorify Opening director George Nierenberg’s celebrated feature documentary, in it’s 2019 restoration, from Milestone Films, we meet St. Louis-based gospel music superstar Willie Mae Ford Smith, in Say Amen, Somebody — The Good News Musical, 1982.

Say Amen, Somebody (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Thank God For Professor Dorsey A background segment, with narration from singer Willie Mae Ford Smith, about gospel music pioneer, professor Thomas A. Dorsey, followed by portions of his own interview, in Say Amen, Somebody — The Good News Musical, 1982.

Ship Ahoy (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Take Tallulah Like many Eleanor Powell numbers, another suggesting she was the best dancer of her generation, devised by Billy Connolly, Bert Lahr and Red Skelton warbling, Tommy Dorsey's band, song by Burton Lane and Yip Harburg, clever bit for drummer Buddy Rich, in Ship Ahoy, 1942.

Song Is Born, A (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Dorsey, Armstrong, Etc. Danny Kaye is the music professor doing research but this is only a showcase for big musical guests, notably Tommy Dorsey on trombone, ending with Lionel Hampton joining Louis Armstrong, in one of his best-ever on-camera trumpet solos, from Samuel Goldwyn's A Song Is Born, 1948.

Song Is Born, A (1948) -- (Movie Clip) How Jazz Was Born The musical show-stopper, joining the original novelty number by Don Raye and Gene de Paul, Virginia Mayo dubbed by Jeri Sullavan, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet on sax, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Mel Powell on piano, and Louie Bellson drumming, Danny Kaye the professor in charge, in Howard Hawks’ remake of his own Ball Of Fire, 1942, A Song Is Born, 1948.

Ship Ahoy (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Hawaiian War Chant Opening, pretty much everybody showing off, the tune a Hawaiian pop standard, first Tommy Dorsey and the band, then drummer Buddy Rich and trumpeter Ziggy Elman, then Eleanor Powell as the fictional "Tallulah Winters," in Ship Ahoy, from producer Jack Cummings at MGM, co-starring Red Skelton.

Ship Ahoy (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Last Call For Love Frank Sinatra fronts Tommy Dorsey’s band in a rendition of Burton Lane, Margery Cummings and E.Y. Harburg's "Last Call for Love" in the wartime musical Ship Ahoy, 1942.

Say Amen, Somebody (1982) -- 2019 Re-release Trailer Trailer promoting the 2019 restoration of the acclaimed documentary by George Nierenberg, Say Amen, Somebody, 1982, featuring singer Willie Mae Ford Smith and composer and educator Thomas A. Dorsey.

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