Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

1934

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

Director

Fred Waller

Cast

Cab Calloway as Cab Calloway

Ethel Moses as Cotton Club Performer (uncredited)

Fredi Washington as Sam's wife

Sidney Easton as Sam, train porter

Crew

William O. Steiner (Director of Photography)

Fred Rath (Story)

Milton Hockey (Story)