The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

Overview

Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles Armstrong from his humble beginnings in New Orleans through his career as America's Ambassador of Good Will. Film clips, vintage photographs and interviews with family, friends, fellow musicians and Armstrong himself are woven together to tell the story of this legendary personality.

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Cast

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  Danny Glover

  Narrator (voice)

• Louis Armstrong

  Self (archive footage)

• Lillian Hardin

  Self

• Gary Giddins

  Self

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  Stanley Crouch

  Self

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  George Avakian

  Self

• Laurence Bergreen

  Self

• Mollyne Karnofsky

  Self

• Milton Gabler

  Self

• Jack Bradley

  Self

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  John Barry

  Self

• ★ 7.2

  Val

  2021

• ★ 7.1

  Let's Get Lost

  1988

• ★ 6.5

  They Shot the Piano Player

  2023

• ★ 7.0

  The Glenn Miller Story

  1954

• ★ 6.5

  Born to Be Blue

  2015

• ★ 7.7

  An Adventure in Space and Time

  2013

• ★ 7.1

  'Round Midnight

  1986

• ★ 8.1

  Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

  2024

• ★ 6.8

  Howard

  2018

• ★ 6.8

  Being Eddie

  2025

• ★ 7.4

  Maria by Callas

  2017

• ★ 6.6

  Altman

  2014

• ★ 7.1

  Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

  2019

• ★ 7.2

  Official Secrets

  2019

• ★ 6.8

  Bank of Dave

  2023

• ★ 8.1

  Soul

  2020

• ★ 7.3

  The Greatest Game Ever Played

  2005

• ★ 7.2

  Stan Lee

  2023