ApprovedKing of Jazz

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Play Time: 100 mins
Animation, Music
King of Jazz

Overview:
A large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early sound-era “all-star” musical productions.

Status: Released (1930-04-20)
Awards:Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins total
Screen:Harry Ruskin, Edward T. Lowe Jr., Charles MacArthur
Productions: Universal Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
King of Jazz

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The title of this film is a touch misleading. I was expecting much more of a jazz-based musical revue but instead got pretty much a whole gamut of colourful and precisely staged repertoire. Paul Whiteman and his accomplished orchestra provide the conduit, as it were, as a variety of ....

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