Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

Name: Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
Genre: Comedy, Music
Released: 1934
Duration: 10 min

English • 1934 • 10m

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Director

Fred Waller

Comedy Music

Synopsis

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Zaz-zuh-zaz" and "The Lady with the Fan" at the Cotton Club in Harlem.

Credits

Crew

DirectorFred Waller

CinematographerWilliam O. Steiner

Cast

Cab Callowayas Cab Calloway

Sidney Eastonas Sam, train porter

Fredi Washingtonas Sam's wife

Ethel Mosesas Cotton Club Performer (uncredited)