Hi De Ho (1947), 6+

Bandleader Cab Calloway is tiring of his sexy girlfriend Minnie, who in turn is jealous of Cab's manager Nettie. When Nettie gets Cab a job at the Brass Hat Club, Minnie retaliates for his imagined infidelity by setting gangster Boss Mason, owner of a rival club, against him. Will she regret her action before it's too late? (This plot resolves halfway through the film; the rest is a series of 'soundies' featuring the Calloway band's inimitable jive). 
1h 12min | Musical | 9 May 1947
Director: Josh Binney
Stars: Cab Calloway, Ida James, Jeni Le Gon.
Addison Carew ... choreographer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039460/

Available on AmazonPrime; watched from megapack; mediocre print.

In the Tap! Appendix for Miller Brothers and Lois, who dance together in the last half/quarter of the film, which is all performance. It's a shame they aren't credited properly (first and last names). In the book Tap!, Rusty Frank mentions them several times, but doesn't fill in the missing names. This is the only film credit for either the brothers (who also danced with a 3rd brother or Honi Cones) or Lois. They dance well, and danced on large letters spelling MILLER, and a couple of pedestals. The last bit on pedestal was most impressive to me: Lois does some fast aeroplanes while up there. That looked plenty dangerous to me, since the pedestal was only 1-2' wide.

The choreographer likely worked out the chorus girls' dance within this performance sequence. It was ok, but not great camera work.

The Peters Sisters sing in the all-performance section. Haven't seen them since Love and Hisses ('37). They still sound good.

The final number is CC marrying someone named Eddie (pretty girl), supposedly for real within his act. But IMDb shows he's already married to Wenonah "Betty" Conacher until '48, then married Zulme "Nuffie" MacNeal in '49; neither sounds like Eddie to me.

I was impressed by his acapella singing in the first scene. He normally has so many vocal gimmicks and dances so much when he performs, it was interesting to see how good his voice was without all that.

Big surprise for me, since I didn't read the cast list before watching this: Minnie was played by Jeni Le Gon, who did NOT dance in the film. That's a shame; they should have given her a reason to dance. But maybe she just wanted to act, and she got to play jealous, drunk, and dying.

This is a much better than usual race film in terms of production, but it's still visibly low-budget.

All-American, dir. Binney; 6+