Cab Calloway seduces your wife in 10 minutes of pure jazz chaos.
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.
Acting
Calloway's effortless charisma owns every frame.
Production
Rare Cotton Club footage, gloriously preserved.
Director
Fred Waller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fredi Washington, playing the adulterous wife, was a fierce advocate for Black performers and later co-founded the Negro Actors Guild.
This was shot during the Cotton Club's segregation era—Black performers, white audiences—making Calloway's on-screen dominance quietly radical.
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