Tommy Dorsey

AKA: Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey Jr., Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr.
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1905-11-19

Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {20}

Tommy Dorsey

1943-11-26 5.4

Girl Crazy

Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Tommy Dorsey

1947-02-26 6

The Fabulous Dorseys

The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Tommy Dorsey

1943-08-13 6.4

Du Barry Was a Lady

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Music

Tommy Dorsey

1948-10-19 6.333

A Song Is Born

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfri ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Tommy Dorsey

1944-01-19 5.5

Broadway Rhythm

Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show. ...
Genre :Family, Music, Comedy, Romance

Self (archive footage)

1941-11-07 6

Birth of the Blues

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 ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Tommy Dorsey (uncredited)

1943-09-01 3.5

I Dood It

Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a p ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Himself

1943-11-01 5

Swing Fever

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Himself

1941-03-28 5.5

Las Vegas Nights

A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Tommy Dorsey

1942-04-16 5.9

Ship Ahoy

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1981-04-03 7

This Is Elvis

Though several actors portray Elvis Presley at different stages of his life, this documentary is comprised mostly of actual performance footage and interviews with Elvis, his fans and those close to h ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Documentary

Himself

1951-09-30 0

Disc Jockey

National DJs help a promoter make an unknown girl a star, to prove the power of radio over TV. ...
Genre :Music

Trombone Player (uncredited)

1930-01-05 4.5

A Night in a Dormitory

The adventures of a schoolgirl in a nightclub as related by her to her dormitory sisters. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

(archive footage)

1976-05-16 6.91

That's Entertainment, Part II

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Tommy Dorsey (archive footage) (uncredited)

1945-01-01 5.5

The Great Morgan

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed ...
Genre :Comedy

Tommy Dorsey

1943-04-29 6.3

Presenting Lily Mars

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Tommy Dorsey

1945-05-23 6.2

Thrill of a Romance

A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Tommy Dorsey (uncredited)

1943-11-01 5

Swing Fever

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

1954-07-03 0

Stage Show

Stage Show was a popular music variety series on American television originally hosted on alternate weeks by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Produced by Jackie Gleason, the CBS-T ...
Genre :

Self

1950-02-02 7

What's My Line?

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions. ...
Genre :Family, Comedy