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Louis Prima
Acting
07 Dec 1910
† 24 Aug 1978
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Biography
Louis Leo Prima was an American trumpeter, singer, entertainer, and bandleader. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans–style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s, and performed frequently as a Vegas lounge act beginning in the 1950s. From the 1940s ...
Also Known As
Louis Leo Prima
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Louis Prima's Movies
73%
The Jungle Book
18 Oct 1967
59%
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
02 Feb 1975
60%
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
26 Nov 1937
70%
Start Cheering
03 Mar 1938
64%
Rose of Washington Square
05 May 1939
42%
Swing It
30 Jun 1936
47%
The Continental Twist
12 Dec 1961
62%
Swing Cat's Jamboree
06 Aug 1938
57%
You Can't Have Everything
02 Aug 1937
20%
Playgirls International
29 Oct 1963
70%
Senior Prom
01 Dec 1958
10%
The Star Reporter in Hollywood
22 Oct 1937
40%
Rhythm on the Range
01 Jul 1936
40%
Louis Prima: The Wildest!
22 Oct 1999
70%
Jazz Ball
01 Jan 1956
0%
Louis Prima: In Person!
01 Jan 2010
0%
Hey Boy! Hey Girl!
05 Aug 1959
0%
The Champ's a Chump
20 Jun 1936
0%
DTV: Golden Oldies
01 Sept 1984
