- published: 23 Jan 2014
- views: 1556594
Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly recognizable deep and distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing (vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics).
Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over," whose skin-color was secondary to his music in an America that was severely racially divided. It allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a black man. While he rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, he was privately a strong supporter of the Civil Rights movement in America.[citation needed]
Actors: Louis Armstrong (actor), Peter Capell (actor), Gert Fröbe (actor), Joachim Fuchsberger (actor), Günter Pfitzmann (actor), Kurd Pieritz (actor), Fritz Tillmann (actor), Heinz Weiss (actor), Elke Sommer (actress), Artur Brauner (producer), Gert Wilden (composer), Irms Pauli (costume designer), Hans W. Hamacher (actor), Stanislav Ledinek (actor), Werner Peters (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Ruth Lee (actress), Florence Wix (actress), Sol C. Siegel (producer), Reginald Simpson (actor), Grace Kelly (actress), Frank Sinatra (actor), Celeste Holm (actress), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Richard Keene (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Louis Armstrong (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), Gordon Richards (actor), Richard Garrick (actor), Johnny Green (composer),
Plot: Tracy Lord, a holier-than-thou ice goddess who, having been through one marriage to likable musician C.K. Dexter Haven, is about to enter another with a rather stuffy, boring social climber. Dexter and Mike Connor, a reporter covering the nuptials, help Tracy find her human side and realize whom she really should marry.
Keywords: actor-playing-himself, based-on-play, broken-engagement, color-remake-of-black-and-white-film, crazy-uncle, crooner, divorce, drunken-singing, duet, ex-husband-ex-wife-relationshipActors: Charles Evans (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Neal Dodd (actor), Mike Donovan (actor), Art Baker (actor), André Charlot (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Louis Armstrong (actor), James Burke (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Walter Catlett (actor), Paul Bradley (actor), James Finlayson (actor),
Plot: Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris, when an ultimatum from his erstwhile fiancée Emmadel Jones draws him back to Boston, complete with two adopted orphans to melt her heart. Too late! She's now engaged to rich, handsome Wilbur Stanley. And if Pete's not married within five days, he loses the kids. He'll have to work fast...
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,Actors: Danny Kaye (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Roy Darmour (actor), Louis Armstrong (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Hugh Herbert (actor), William Haade (actor), Felix Bressart (actor), J. Edward Bromberg (actor), Edward Biby (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Nolan Leary (actor), Paul Langton (actor),
Plot: Gangster's moll Honey Swanson goes into hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. Where better to hide than a musical research institute staffed entirely by lonely bachelors? She gets more than she bargained for when the head of the institute Professor Hobart Frisbee starts to fall for her.
Keywords: remake, remake-by-original-directorActors: Eddie Kane (actor), Eddie Hall (actor), Bill Cartledge (actor), Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher (actor), Eddie Bruce (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Terry Frost (actor), Louis Armstrong (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Vernon Dent (actor), John Dilson (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), George Eldredge (actor), Allen Fox (actor), Charles La Torre (actor),
Plot: Kansas girl Terry Baxter has won a trip to Hollywood, tries to get a job as a dancer and ends up as secretary of screenwriter Haven. She mixes up the scripts, is fired and when she tries to explain to him what happened, she tries to break in a residence - she belives it belongs Haven's boss Stuart, but she is wrong - and is arrested. But Stuart and Haven don't let her drop.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, apartment, aspiration, audition, b-movie, big-band, butlerActors: Richard Keene (actor), Brandon Hurst (actor), Payne B. Johnson (actor), Warren Hymer (actor), Harry Barris (actor), John Gallaudet (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Brian Donlevy (actor), Louis Armstrong (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor), Duke Ellington (actor), Roscoe Ates (actor), Cecil Kellaway (actor),
Plot: 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.
Keywords: african-american, cultural-conflict, jazz, movie-theater, murder, musician, new-orleans-louisiana, scat-singingActors: Louis Armstrong (actor), William Austin (actor), Johnny Arthur (actor), Herman Bing (actor), Charles Butterworth (actor), Walter Catlett (actor), Chester Conklin (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Otto Fries (actor), Weldon Heyburn (actor), Roger Imhof (actor), John Indrisano (actor), Edmund Lowe (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Louis Armstrong (actor), Aubrey Scotto (director), Michael Hankinson (editor), Sidney Easton (actor), Fanny Belle DeKnight (actress), Phil Cohan (writer),
Plot: A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'.
Genres: Musical, Short,Actors: Louis Armstrong (actor), Max Fleischer (producer), Dave Fleischer (director), Ann Little (actress),
Plot: Koko and Bimbo take Betty Boop on a jungle safari, where they run afoul of a cannibal tribe caricaturing Louis Armstrong and his band members (they play the title song, partly in live-action).
Keywords: anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphic-clothing, anthropomorphism, apostrophe-in-title, betty-boop, bimbo-the-dog, cannibal, cannibal-tribe, cartoon-crocodile, cartoon-dogActors: M.H. Hoffman (miscellaneous crew), José Bohr (actor), Neil Hamilton (actor), Lorimer Johnston (actor), Cornelius Keefe (actor), Norman Kerry (actor), Joseph North (actor), 'Snub' Pollard (actor), May Beatty (actress), Marian Nixon (actress), Joan Standing (actress), M.H. Hoffman (producer), W. Donn Hayes (editor), Louis Armstrong (actor), Roland Drew (actor),
Genres: Drama,