Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

6.6
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Run time: 10 min
  • Premiere: 1934. August 24.

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.

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Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

Sidney Easton

Sam, train porter

Fredi Washington

Sam's wife

Ethel Moses

Cotton Club Performer (uncredited)

Camera

William O. Steiner

Director of Photography

Directing

Fred Waller

Director

Writing

Fred Rath

Story

Camera

William O. Steiner

Director of Photography

Directing

Fred Waller

Director

Writing

Fred Rath

Story