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5 unusual facts about King of Jazz


Eddie Lang

In 1929, he joined Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, and can be seen and heard in the movie The King of Jazz.

Herman Rosse

He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film King of Jazz.

John Murray Anderson

Anderson directed the film King of Jazz (1930), wrote the screenplay for Ziegfeld Follies (1946), directed the water ballets in Bathing Beauty (1944), and directed the circus sequences in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).

The Rhythm Boys

They appeared with the Whiteman orchestra in the film King of Jazz (Universal Pictures, 1930), in which they sang Mississippi Mud, So the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds Got Together, I'm a Fisherman, Bench in the Park, and Happy Feet.

William T. Kent

If he's remembered it's for the hilarious 'baby-bastard' sequence in Universal's early sound musical King of Jazz (1930).



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