The best Eddie "Rochester" Anderson’s music movies

Eddie

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

18/09/1905- 28/02/1977
Today we present the best Eddie "Rochester" Anderson’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Eddie "Rochester" Anderson’s movies.

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.3/10
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.

Show Boat

Show Boat
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaMusic
  • Release: 17/05/1936
  • Character: Boonville man speaking film's first line
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 05/03/1942
  • Character: Rochester
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.

Cabin in the Sky

Cabin in the Sky
7.1/10
  • Genre: FantasyMusic
  • Release: 09/04/1943
  • Character: Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.

Melody For Two

Melody For Two
6.2/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 01/05/1937
  • Character: Exodus Johnson
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

Broadway Rhythm

Broadway Rhythm
5.9/10
  • Genre: FamilyMusic
  • Release: 19/01/1944
  • Character: Eddie
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.

Man About Town

Man About Town
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/06/1939
  • Character: Rochester
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.

Gold Diggers in Paris

Gold Diggers in Paris
5.8/10
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.

Thanks for the Memory

Thanks for the Memory
6.4/10
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.

Birth of the Blues

Birth of the Blues
6.3/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 07/11/1941
  • Character: Louey
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.

Wake Up and Live

Wake Up and Live
6.7/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 23/08/1937
  • Character: Elevator Operator
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Rainbow on the River

Rainbow on the River
7.1/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 18/12/1936
  • Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

I Love a Bandleader

I Love a Bandleader
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 13/09/1945
  • Character: Newton H. Newton
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.

Related actors