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This page lists information on DVD and VHS movies /
Films that contain swing dance scenes plus some swing
dance related movies here to add to your collection
plus several animations. Check dance/
dancers archives pages for a more complete list
of movies. Some links are added which might not have
the movie available because it is only being sold as
used so they may have sold them already, but they do
get more. .... enjoy! |
Movie
Title |
Studio |
Dancers |
Date |
| 1941
|
Universal Pictures |
Jitterbug
Contest. John Belushi, Kay |
1979 |
A
Day At The Races |
M.G.M. |
Whitey's,
Leon James, sb,
br, gg, dm, nm, |
1937 |
A
Lady Takes a Chance |
Republic |
John Wayne and Jean Stevens Jitterbug |
1943 |
A Little Jive is Good For You |
??? |
- |
1941 |
Abou Ben Boogie |
Walter Lantz Corp. |
Animation |
1944 |
After Seban |
Paramount Pictures |
sg, jb |
1929 |
Air Mail Special |
Soundies Corp. |
Lindy dance to
Count Basie Orch |
1941 |
'Alligators' plus 'Cats' plus 'Jive' Equals More
Swing |
Paramount Pictures |
Shag, Truckin
and Lindy Hop |
1938 |
Always
A Bridesmaid |
Universal Pictures |
Dean
Collins, Jewel
McGowen, Jivin' Jacks and Jills |
1943 |
| American
Pop |
Tristar |
Cartoon of actual vintage Lindy
Hoppers |
1981 |
Among the Living |
Paramount Pictures |
Patti Lacey, Ray Hirsch, Roy Lester, Jane Allen |
1941 |
Arthur
Murrays 'How To Dance The Shag |
General Service |
Aarthur Murray Shag
Dancers |
1937 |
Ask Uncle Sol |
20th. Century Fox |
Short: Shorty George
and Big Bea and his troupe |
1937 |
| At
The Jazz Band Ball |
Yazoo Video! |
Shorty
George, James Barton,
Bojangles and more.
|
1932 |
Attack
of the 50ft. Woman |
20th. Century Fox |
Jitterbug |
1958 |
Australian Jitterbugs Jitter |
Paramount Pictures |
- |
1944 |
| Babes
In Arms |
M.G.M. |
Maxie Dorf, Larry "Lolly" Wise |
1939 |
| Babes
On Broadway |
M.G.M. |
Maxie Dorf |
1941 |
| Bachelor
Mother |
R.K.O. |
Lawrence Lolly Wise and Marge Wilson,
Swing Scene, Ginger
Rogers |
1939 |
Be Bop |
Paramount News |
French swing |
1949 |
Belles
On Their Toes
|
20th. Century Fox |
??? Shag
Dancers |
1953 |
| Benny
Goodman Story |
Universal Pictures |
pe, dl,
ls, sl, ncb |
1955 |
|
Bessie Smith & Friends |
BCI Eclipse |
Nicholas
Brothers, Lena Horne,
Bessie Smith |
1929-1945 |
| Beware |
Timeless |
Louis Jordan Video, no swing dancing,
Dimples Daniels Lizzie dancing |
1946 |
Big
Apple |
Paramount News Headliner |
Charleston, Shag,
Shine, Suzy-Q, Truckin,
Peckin', Lindy,
Jitterbug |
1937 |
| Birmingham
Black Bottom |
Koch Vision |
Non Dance (c.1927) |
1998 |
Black Bottom |
??? |
black
bottom |
1927 |
Black
Board Jungle |
Warner Home Video |
Introduced Rock and Roll music to Audiences |
1955 |
Bli-Blip |
??? |
Marie Bryant & Paul White |
1942 |
| Blondie
Meets the Boss |
Alpha-Omega |
Ray Hirsch & Patti Lacey |
1939 |
Boarding
House Blues
|
All American |
"Crip" Heard, Berry
Bros, Stump and Stumpy |
1948 |
Boogie-Doodle |
Norman McLaren |
Animated |
1948 |
Boogiemania |
Soundies Dist |
Helen Bangs & Albert Reese James |
1946 |
Boogie Woogie |
Paramount Musical Parade |
Jitterbug
Scenes |
1945 |
Boogie Woogie |
??? |
Animated Jitterbug |
1960 |
Boogie Woogie Blues |
??? |
Hadda Brooks. sorry, Not yet seen |
1948 |
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company 'B'
|
Walter Lantz |
Animated Musical |
1941 |
| Boogie Woogie Dream |
Soundies |
No dance, But good Swing Music |
1944 |
| Bop Girl |
n/a |
Calypso, ECS, Lou
Southern, Gil
Brady |
1957 |
Boy!
What a Girl |
Gotham Dist. |
The Int'l Jitterbugs, Harlemaniacs, Jitterbug |
1946 |
Broadway Highlights of 1930
|
[try
here] |
Many 1930's Nightclubs in NY |
1930 |
Broadway Serenade |
??? |
Roy Lester, Helen Seamon |
1939 |
|
Buck Privates |
Universal Pictures |
Dean
Collins, Jewel
McGowen, Gil Hernandez, Connie Wydel, Gene 'Shadow'
Cole |
1941 |
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid |
Merrie Melodies |
Animated |
1942 |
| Bumble
Boogie |
RKO / Disney |
Short Animation (aka: Melody
Time) |
1948 |
|
Bundle Of Joy |
R.K.O. |
Gil
and Nicki Brady, lenny
Smith, Joe lanza, bess flowers, fs, aw |
1956 |
| Burlesque
in Harlem |
??? |
Bevy of dances and dancers |
1939 |
| Cabin
In The Sky |
M.G.M. |
as, lj |
1943 |
Call
Of The Jitterbug |
Green |
Congeroo, Parks, WLH, Lindy
Hop |
1988 |
Calling Dr. Gillespie |
??? |
Short Swing Scene |
1942 |
Calypso
Heat Wave |
Columbia Pictures |
Lenny
Smith, Frieda Angela
Wyckoff |
1957 |
| Cannery
Row |
Turner |
Funny Scene with Nolte and Winger |
1982 |
| Canterville
Ghost |
Warner Brothers |
?Dean
Collins ?, with Margaret O'Brien |
1944 |
Carl Deacon Moore and His Orchestra |
Vitaphone Short |
Big Apple |
1938 |
| Carnival
Rock |
How Co. ? |
Gil
Brady, Freda Angela
Wyckoff |
1957 |
Charleston ...
[Avante
Garde - try here] |
??? |
Catherine Hessling charleston's from
Outer Space with a monkey |
1927 |
| Charleston,
the |
Renoir Silent |
a Jean Renoir Silent film |
1928 |
Charleston Queen |
??? |
Animated |
1926 |
|
Chicago and all That Jazz |
N.B.C. |
Leon
James, Al Minns |
1961 |
|
Chicken Run [DVD] |
Universal Pictures |
Animated Chicken Lindy
Scene |
2000 |
Chool
Song, the |
??? |
Dean
Collins, Jewel McGowen
(as Collette) Swing, Minuet, Truckin' |
194? |
College Humor |
Paramount Pictures |
Freddie Christopherson
|
1933 |
| College
Swing |
Universal Pictures |
Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan do the
Jitterbug |
1937 |
Collegiate |
??? |
n/a |
1926 |
Collegiate |
??? |
Gallagher, Sharpe, Usher, Prinz, Marjorie
Reynolds |
1936 |
Cootie Williams Orchestra |
??? |
lj, dj, rw, ch |
1943 |
| Copacabana
|
Republican |
1, 2, Jitterbug
at end of film |
1947 |
Cottontail
(aka Harlem Harmonies) |
Harlem |
Frankie
Manning, Norma Miller,
Lindy Hoppers, Three Chefs, Bojangles |
1941 |
Cow Cow Boogie [try
here] |
??? |
Animation |
1943 |
Crazy
House |
Universal Pictures |
Pepsi Bethel, Tiny
Bunch, & the De
Marcos |
1943 |
Crime Wave |
Encore TV |
?? |
1985 |
Cuban Rhythm |
M.G.M. |
Mickey Alvarez, Madeline Pollard
(a Pete Smith short - Rumba) |
1941 |
|
Daddy-O |
Columbia Pictures |
Sandra
Giles, (Gil and
Nikki Brady) |
1958 |
| Dance
Hall |
20th. Century Fox |
Dean
Collins, Jewel McGowen,
Ceaser Romero,
Carole Landis, Connie Wydel |
1941 |
| Dance,
Girl, Dance |
R.K.O. |
Vivian Faye, Lucille Ball, Not sure about
this one |
1940 |
|
Dancing Program #5 |
P.B.S. |
has swing clips-"Shorty
George", Lindy
Hop |
199? |
Death in Small Doses |
??? |
Freida
Wyckoff, Lou Southern |
1957 |
|
Desk Set |
20th. Century Fox |
Freida
Wyckoff, Joe Lanza,
Lou Southern |
1957 |
Dispossessed Blues
|
short film |
songs by: Lynn Albritton & the Four Knobs |
|
Don't
Knock the Rock |
Columbia Pictures |
Gil
and Nicki Brady, Freida
Wyckoff, Lou Southern,
[ Poster] |
1956 |
| Down
Argentine Way |
20th. Century Fox |
Betty
Grable, Nicholas
bros. Charlotte Greenwood |
1940 |
Duke
Is Tops |
Ryko |
Lena Horne,
Criner, Hawley, Willie
Covan, Rubberneck Holmes |
1938 |
| $
Ellington Shorts |
Paramount Pictures |
?? |
29-41 |
Everybody
Sing |
MGM |
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers,
Judy Garland |
1938 |
| Fighting
Seabees |
Republican |
John Wayne with Adele Mara, Jitterbug |
1944 |
|
Follow The Boys |
Universal Pictures |
Bob Ashley, Lenny
Smith, Lou Southern,
Carmen Amaya, George
Raft, Vera Zorina |
1944 |
Ford 50th Anniversary |
??? |
Ollies Newsreel # 2 & Wally Cox Dance
Demos. |
1953 |
|
Four Jills in a Jeep |
20th. Century Fox |
gt, Freida
Wyckoff, Roy Damron |
1944 |
Fox Movietone News #19/100: Jitterbug |
20th. Century Fox |
- |
8/26/1937 |
Fox Movietone: USO Dancers |
20th. Century Fox |
- |
3/17/1942 |
From the Minuet to the Big Apple |
Paramount Pictures |
n/a |
1937 |
Gangs All Here, the
(aka: In the night) |
20th. Century Fox |
Diedre Gale, John Mills, Charles Saggau,
Johnny & Jenny Duncan |
1941 |
Gangs
all Here, The
(aka: Girl he left behind) |
20th. Century
Fox |
Diedre Gale & Charles
Saggau, John Mills, Miriam LaVelle, Tony
DeMarco & Virgina Wilson, Carmen
Miranda, |
1943 |
George White Scandals |
R.K.O. |
n/a |
1934 |
George
White Scandals |
20th. Century Fox |
Bojangles,
Eleanor Powell |
1935 |
George
White Scandals |
R.K.O. |
Dean
Collins, ??? |
1945 |
Georgie Porgie |
??? |
- |
1946 |
Get
Hep to Love |
Universal Pictures |
Jivin' Jacks and Jills, Donald
O Connor, Peggy Ryan |
1942 |
Get Yourself a College Girl |
-- |
- |
1964 |
| Ghost
Chasers |
Warner Brothers |
Dean
Collins choreo, Bob Ashley, Lou
Southern, Betty Stoy, Gil Hernandez, Irene Thomas,
John & Venna Archer, Mike Tremini |
1951 |
| Girl
Can't Help It, The |
20th. Century Fox |
lou
Southern, Gil
and Nicki Brady |
1956 |
Give
Out, Sisters |
Universal Pictures |
Jivin' Jacks and Jills |
1942 |
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra |
??? |
- |
1942 |
| Glenn
Miller Story |
M.C.A. |
Lisa Gaye, Anita Deaton, Archie
Savage Dancers |
1954 |
Groovie Movie [try
here] |
Pete Smith |
sw, jp, a, lou
southern, m [Poster] |
1944 |
Hamburg Gets The Jitters |
Paramount Pictures |
|
1952 |
Harlem Bound |
Vitaphone Short |
Musical short: 20 mins (Mentone Comedy #4, Universal) |
1935 |
Harlem
Harmonies v.2 |
Hotline |
Same as cottontail, Lindy
Hop, Bojangles,
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers,
Three Chefs |
1941 |
Harlem Hoofers Fry Their Corns |
Paramount Pictures |
Lindy dancers |
1938 |
| Harlem
Swings |
??? |
dance, music, 1930s to 1950s, Jitterbug
Johnnies |
1950 |
Harvest Moon Ball |
Paramount News |
1939, 1941, 1949, 1950, 1951 |
Varies |
Harvest Moon Madness |
??? |
- |
1951 |
Having a Wonderful Life |
??? |
Walter Cosden, Shag |
19?? |
Heats on Again, the |
??? |
Three Heat Waves, Jitterbug |
1943 |
| Hellzapoppin'
|
Universal Pictures |
Dean
Collins, Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers, mt, nm, Frankie
Manning, wr, am, eb, br, wd, fj, mr, Lindy
Hop |
1941 |
| Here
Come The Waves |
Paramount Pictures |
???, Betty Hutton, also Blackface routine |
1944 |
Hi
Buddy |
Universal Pictures |
Dick Humphries, Marilyn Kaye, Helene
Stanley, Jivin' Jacks and Jills, Step Brothers |
1943 |
|
Hi-De-Ho (no swing Dance!) |
Storyville |
Calloway
(Plot: Radio) |
1934 |
|
Hi-De-Ho (no swing!) |
Timeless |
Calloway
Short - no swing! (Plot: Infidelity) |
1937 |
| Hi-De-Ho
(no swing!) |
All American |
Calloway
Chor: Addison Carew. Tap: Miller Bros. & Lois, Shorty
George Snowden (Plot: Cotton Club) |
1947 |
Hold
That Co-ed |
20th. Century Fox |
?? |
1938 |
| Holiday
Inn |
Universal Pictures |
Various dances, Brief Jitterbug
Scene, Fred Astaire |
1941 |
| Hollywood
Canteen |
Warner Brothers |
(very brief) Johnny Archer, Gil
Hernandez, Jack Coffey, also Rosario
and Antonio - do a Spanish dance |
1944 |
Home
In Indiana |
??? |
Charles Saggau, ?? |
1944 |
|
Horn Blows At Midnight |
Warner Brothers |
Dean
Collins, john archer, Jean
Phelps-Veloz, |
1945 |
|
Hot Chocolates (aka: Cottontail) |
Soundies |
Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers, wd, am, fm,
nm, fj, wr, aj, br, Lindy
Hop |
1941 |
Hot
Rod Gang |
American International |
Long swing scene, Kay Wheeler |
1958 |
Houseboat |
Paramount Studios |
Gil
and Nicki Brady, Joe
Lanza |
1958 |
| How To Do The Big Apple |
Paramount Studios |
Big Apple dance and others. |
193? |
I
Am The Law |
COLUMBIA |
Edward G. Robinson and others do the Swing, Suzy
Q. Big Apple,
Shag, Shimmy |
1938 |
I
Dood It |
M.G.M. |
Kid Jitterbug
Dancers, Buck and Bubbles,
Eleanor Powell |
1943 |
I Married Joan, V.14: Jitterbug |
TV |
n/a |
1952-1955 |
I'll
Remember April |
Universal Pictures |
Jack Archer, Venna Archer, Irene Thomas |
1945 |
I'm Just a Jitterbug |
Universal Pictures |
Walter Lantz Animated Mother Goose |
1939 |
In A Jazz Way |
Maura Dehn |
Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers, Lindy
Hop |
1987 |
In The Swing |
T.V. |
30 min. short film. Dean
Collins, mc, lb, bh, sf, mn, l, kl |
1981? |
Irene |
RKO |
Anna
Neagle, Ray Miland, Dandridge
Sisters |
1940 |
It Takes Hot Dogs to Win the Lindy Hop |
Pathe News |
Various - at Harlem Dance Hall |
1931 |
It’s in the Stars |
??? |
- |
1938 |
| It's Swing Ho - Come to the Fair |
Paramount Pictures |
Jitterbug |
1939 |
Jam
Session |
Columbia Pictures |
Ann Miller,
Margaret Campbell Jitterbug
Scene |
1944 |
Jammin'
The Blues |
United |
Archie
Savaga, Marie Bryant, Lindy
Hop, |
1944 |
Janie |
??? |
Teen Movie |
1944 |
| Java Jive |
??? |
Al Donahue (2 minute short film) |
1943 |
| Jazz
Band Ball |
??? |
Calloway
, Lindy Hop |
1956 |
Jazzy Joe |
??? |
Dean
Collins & Jewel
McGowan, Gil Fernandez & Patti Lacey
|
1941 |
Jitter Bughouse |
??? |
18 minute short film? |
1948 |
Jitterbugs
|
20th. Century Fox |
Laurel & Hardy, Jivin' Jacks and
Jills, Zoot Suits |
1943 |
Jitterbug Follies |
M.G.M. |
Animated Jitterbug
Contest |
1939 |
Jitterbug Jamboree |
Hearst-Pathe |
Short Film, Harvest
Moon Ball Shag Dancers |
1940 |
Jitterbug Jive |
??? |
Popeye Jitterbug
dance contest |
1950 |
Jitterbug Knights |
??? |
Animated |
1939 |
|
Jitterbug Party |
Paramount Pictures |
Calloway Short,
Shim-Sham (Minnie
the Moocher) |
1935 |
Jitterbugs Jive at Swingeroo |
Paramount Pictures |
- |
1938 |
|
Jittering Jitterbugs |
Harlem |
Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers, Big
Apple Scene, Lindy
Hop (11 mins) |
1938 |
| Jive
Junction |
PRC |
Bob Ashley & Jean
(Phelps) Veloz, Lenny
& Kay Smith, Don Gallaher & Irene Thomas,
Johnny Archer (Lindy
and Charleston)
|
1943 |
| Jivin'
in Bebop |
??? |
various dancers and Bop Music |
1946 |
Juke Box Joe's |
??? |
Jack Arkin & Irene Thomas, Lenny
Smith & Kay Smith, Jerry Warren
|
1940s |
Juke
Box Rhythm |
Columbia Pictures |
Lenny
Smith, Gil
and Nicki Brady, Frieda
Wyckoff |
1959 |
| Juke
Joint |
Slack Amusement |
Jitterbug Johnnies, Lindy
Hop |
1947 |
Jumpin' Jive |
??? |
Larry Ceballos |
1941 |
| Junction
88 |
??? |
Some dancing, An early all-Black musical |
1947 |
Junior Jive Bombers |
20 minute Short Film |
Leroy Prinz (Haven't Seen This One) |
1944 |
Junior
Prom |
Monogram |
Dean
Collins, Jewel
mcGowen, Hal Takier,
Lenny Smith and
more (also see teenagers) |
1946 |
| Keep
Punchin' |
Sack Amusement |
-Lindy
Hop, Big Apple,
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers |
1939 |
|
Kid Dynamite |
Monogram |
Dean
Collins, Jewel
McGowen, Leo Gorcey, Kay Marvis |
1943 |
| Killer
Diller |
All American |
fm, rw, aj, wr, Lindy
Hop, CONGEROO'S |
1948 |
Last Of The Blonde Bombshells |
TV |
- |
2000 |
Let's
Go Collegiate |
Monogram |
- |
1941 |
Let's
Make Music |
R.K.O. |
Freda
Angela Wyckoff, ?Jack
Carey?, Dean Collins
& Jewel McGowan
& Bertha Lee, Pat Eggar Havenhill, Tommy Silvius,
Lawrence "Lolly" Wise |
1940 |
Let Me Off Uptown |
Official Films, Inc |
Lindy
Hop Couple |
1942 |
|
Limit Up! |
Virgin Visi
|
Jim Fisk, Nancy Beth, West
Coast Swing |
1989 |
Little Mothers, 40 |
??? |
Lawrence Lolly Wise, ?? |
1940 |
Living It Up |
Paramount
Pictures |
Lawrence Lolly Wise, Jerry
Lewis, Sheree North,
Tommy Silvius, |
