Peggy LeeFilmography

Judy Garland: Judy Duets

Actors: Judy Garland

Synopsis: Judy Garland: Duets collects several television appearances by the singer in which she performs with fellow celebrities. The release includes collaborations with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Bobby Darin, and Lena Horne. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee

Synopsis: This documentary compiles 20 different film and television appearances by the distinctive singer Peggy Lee. She is seen and heard performing such classics as "Fever," "Wind Beneath My Wings," "A Fine Romance," "Big Spender," and "Is That All There Is." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Dean Martin: That's Amoré

Actors: Dean Martin

Synopsis: This program provides the viewer with a repertoire of some of the greatest hits of one of the most popular entertainers of all time. Dean Martin led a charmed life in the entertainment business. The singer found fame as the handsome straight man for comedian Jerry Lewis. Following their long run Read More

Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing

Actors: Benny Goodman

Synopsis: This biography of musical legend Benny Goodman contains testimonials from various contemporaries and scholars, and offers several clips of the man in performance. Nearly two-dozen songs can be heard including "California, Here I Come," "A Fine Romance," "Why Don't You Do Right," "I've Got a Heart Read More

Men Don't Leave

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jessica Lange, Chris O'Donnell, Arliss Howard, Kathy Bates, Joan Cusack, Charlie Korsmo

Synopsis: Weighed down by her late husband's debts, widow Beth Macauley (Jessica Lange) is compelled to sell her home and move to a less costly locale. She relocates in Baltimore with her resentful sons Chris (Chris O'Donnell) and Matt (Charlie Korsmo) and takes a job at a ramshackle gourmet food store Read More

The Ladies Sing the Blues

Synopsis: Lady Sings the Blues was the dramatized life story of legendary songstress Billie Holliday. Ladies Sing the Blues is a documentary containing film footage aplenty of the real Holliday. In addition, the film offers rare clips of such blues greats as Dinah Washington, Bessie Smith, Lena Horne, Peggy Lee Read More

Stage Bands on Film

Monkey Shines

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest

Synopsis: A quadriplegic former athlete finds his darkest urges being acted out by an animal familiar in this psychological horror film. When Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) loses the use of his legs and arms in an accident, he becomes bitter -- no surprise given that his girlfriend dumps him for his surgeon, his Read More

The Snader Telescriptions: The Vocalists

Synopsis: Four of the twentieth-century's most beloved singers are featured in this installment in the Jazz Legends series from Storyville Films. "I May Be Wrong" by Peggy Lee, "The Nearness of You" by Sarah Vaughn, "Imagination" by June Christy, and "April Showers" by Mel Torme are just a few of the Read More

Pieces of Dreams

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Robert Forster, Lauren Hutton, Will Geer, Ivor Francis, Richard O'Brien

Synopsis: Father Gregory Lind (Robert Forster) is the Catholic priest who questions his dedication to his parishioners. He becomes disenchanted with the church over the official stance on birth control, unwanted pregnancy and social change. He tries to confide in his family but they rebuke him for Read More

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming!

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Just because The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming was vastly overrated by contemporary critics does not make it any less amusing. The story gets under way when a Soviet submarine accidently gets lodged in a sandbar on the coast of a New England town. In his feature film debut, Alan Arkin Read More

Texaco's Swing into Spring

Synopsis: An original telecast from April of 1959, this performance features Benny Goodman doing "Why Don't You Do Right," "Air Mail Special" and many others. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Tom Thumb

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Jessie Matthews

Synopsis: Producer/animator/special-effect maven George Pal made his feature-film directorial bow with the colorful MGM musical fantasy Tom Thumb (the title of the film was spelled in lower case in the opening credits, and in all studio publicity material). Russ Tamblyn stars as the teeny-tiny titular Read More

Johnny Trouble

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Ethel Barrymore, Cecil Kellaway, Carolyn Jones, Jesse White, Rand Harper

Synopsis: In this gentle, non-melodramatic drama, an elderly, wealthy widow will not leave her apartment even after her building is slated to be converted into a dormitory by the university that purchased it. She refuses to leave because she is convinced that her son, who disappeared 27 years before after Read More

The Pride and the Passion

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, John Wengraf

Synopsis: As was his custom, producer/director Stanley Kramer made some iconoclastic casting decisions when mounting his $5 million production The Pride and the Passion. Adapted from The Gun, a novel by C. S. Forester, the film is set in Spain during the Napoleonic wars. Captain Anthony Trumbull (Cary Read More

Jazz Ball

Synopsis: This evening of musical magic includes some of the greatest jazz artists and their exciting performances. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dateline II

Synopsis: Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute specials, bringing the best of Broadway to the 21 inch screen. On November 14, 1955, the series digressed from its usual format to present Dateline 2, the second annual variety Read More

Pete Kelly's Blues

Actors: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine

Synopsis: Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a brilliantly evocative pre-credits prologue, wherein we see how WWI vet Pete Kelly (Webb) came into possession of his precious trumpet, the film traces Kelly to his 1927 gig at a Read More

The Racers

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Bella Darvi, Gilbert Roland, Lee J. Cobb, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: The CinemaScope process gets a rugged workout in Henry Hathaway's The Racers. Kirk Douglas stars as an Italian bus driver who dreams of entering the Grand Prix as a world-famous race car driver. Being Kirk Douglas, he achieves his goal, racing in all the major events around the globe. Dedicated to Read More

Disneyland: Cavalcade of Songs

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this early episode of his TV anthology Disneyland, Walt Disney informs the viewers of how he has used music in his cartoons and live-action films, beginning with the classic "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" in 1933's The Three Little Pigs. Other examples include the songs from Snow White and Read More

Lady and the Tramp

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson

Synopsis: Lady and the Tramp represented two "firsts" for Disney: It was the studio's first Cinemascope animated feature, and it was their first full-length cartoon based on an original story rather than an established "classic". Lady is the pampered female dog belonging to Jim Dear and Darling. When her Read More

Disneyland: The Adventures of Mickey Mouse

Synopsis: Another of Disneyland's many cartoon compilations, "The Adventures of Mickey Mouse" loosely bastes together several theatrical Mickey Mouse shorts into a story of sorts, with narration by host Walt Disney. The cartoons presented herein include Mickey's first color short, 1935's The Band Concert Read More

Johnny Guitar

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Cooper, Royal Dano, Paul Fix

Synopsis: One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and Krafft-Ebbing. The title character, played by Sterling Hayden, is a guitar-strumming drifter who was once the lover of Arizona saloon-owner Vienna (Joan Crawford). Though Read More

The Jazz Singer

Actors: Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, Mildred Dunnock, Eduard Franz, Tom Tully

Synopsis: This second screen adaptation of the Samson Rafaelson play The Jazz Singer is better than the first, though not as historically important (the early Jazz Singer, it will be recalled, sparked the "talkie revolution" way back in 1927). Danny Thomas assumes the old Al Jolson role as the cantor's Read More

The Woman They Almost Lynched

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter, Joan Leslie, Ben Cooper

Synopsis: All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers spellbound throughout. Part of the tension arises from fact that there are two leading female characters: Kate Quantrill (Audrey Totter), wife of infamous Confederate Read More

Juke Box Saturday Night: All Star Golden Classics

Synopsis: This musical presentation features the stars of the '30s, '40s and '50s. Some performers are the Ink Spots, Bobby Darin, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr. and the bands of Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet and Lionel Hampton. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Mr. Music

Actors: Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Robert Stack, Peggy Lee

Synopsis: Bing Crosby stars as Paul Merrick, an irresponsible songwriter in Mr. Music. Merrick's improvidence and prodigality has made him persona non grata in show business, so his secretary Katherine Holbrook (Nancy Olson) takes it upon herself to rehabilitate her boss. Meanwhile, producer Alex Conway (Charles Coburn Read More

Stage Door Canteen

Actors: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early

Synopsis: This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising concerns. Most of the story takes place at the Stage Door Canteen, a Manhattan-based home away from home for soldiers, sailors and marines (the real-life Canteen on 44th Read More

The Powers Girl

Actors: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, Carole Landis, Dennis Day

Synopsis: For the benefit of those who came in late, the John Robert Powers modelling agency was at one time the most famous and powerful enterprise of its kind in New York City. Acknowledging this prominence is the 1942 musical comedy The Powers Girl, with Anne Shirley and Carole Landis starring as sisters Read More

The Quintessential Peggy Lee

Synopsis: Enjoy the sounds of Peggy Lee with titles such as "Just One of Those Things," "Fever," "I'll Get By" and more. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Meet the Singers, Vol. 2

Peggy Lee: Singing At Her Best

Synopsis: Peggy Lee: Singing At Her Best features the famous singer delivering renditions of nearly two-dozen songs. Among the songs she performs are "The Best Is Yet to Come," "Wedding Bell Blues," "Kansas City," "I'm a Woman," and "Where Can I Go Without You." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More