The best Benny Goodman’s movies on YouTube

Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

30/05/1909- 13/06/1986
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Benny Goodman’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Benny Goodman.

Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel
6.4/10
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical.

The Gang's All Here

The Gang's All Here
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/12/1943
  • Character: Benny Goodman
Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Edie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Only trouble is, he gave her the assumed name of Casey. Andy's eventual return with a medal is celebrated by his rich father with a benefit show featuring Eadie's show troupe, at which she's sure to learn his true identity...and meet Vivian, his 'family-arrangement' fiancée. Mostly song and dance.

Syncopation

Syncopation
6.3/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 22/05/1942
  • Character: Benny Goodman
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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