Sidney Easton

Cohen Film Collection introduces this classic short staring Cab Calloway. Cab plays a ladies’ man who dates the wife of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. In addition to this tongue-in-cheek plot, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra perform “Harlem Camp Meeting,” and Calloway has two vocals, “Zaz-zuh-zaz” and “The Lady with the Fan.”

Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around a man chosen by the Better Business League to replace the ousted, crooked leader.

Comedy, magic and music ensue when a performer accidentally makes the show manager’s girlfriend and her expensive pearls vanish into thin air.

Between swing and blues musical numbers, the story of comedian Lem Anderson, whose long-awaited chance to act dramatically vanishes when he witnesses a mob killing and is forced to leave town. Lem becomes a wanderer, then an alcoholic. Finally a chance to play Othello draws him back to Harlem