--- title: 'Alexander''s Ragtime Band (1938)' type: 'film' director: 'Henry King' released: '1938-01-01' runtime_minutes: 108 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Music' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/alexanders-ragtime-band-1938' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029852/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) 1938 · 108 min · Drama, Music, Romance · United States ## Synopsis Alexander's Ragtime Band is a 1938 American musical film released by 20th Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in ragtime instead of "serious" music. The film generally traces the history of jazz music from the popularization of Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century to the acceptance of swing as an art form in the late 1930s using music composed by Berlin. The story spans more than two decades from the 1911 release of its name-sake song to some point in time after the 1933 release of "Heat Wave", presumably 1938. ## Credits - **Director:** [Henry King](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-king) - **Screenplay:** [Irving Berlin](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-berlin), [Darryl F. Zanuck](https://cinepixo.com/people/darryl-f-zanuck), [Lamar Trotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/lamar-trotti) - **Original Music Composer:** [Irving Berlin](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-berlin) - **Producer:** [Darryl F. Zanuck](https://cinepixo.com/people/darryl-f-zanuck) - **Director of Photography:** [John Peverell Marley](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-peverell-marley) - **Editor:** [Barbara McLean](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-mclean) ## Cast - [Jean Hersholt](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-hersholt) - [Alice Faye](https://cinepixo.com/people/alice-faye) - [Paul Hurst](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-hurst) - [Eddie Collins](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-collins) - [Helen Westley](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-westley) - [Don Ameche](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-ameche) - [Ken Darby](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-darby) - [Lon Chaney Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/lon-chaney-jr) - [James Flavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-flavin) - [Tyrone Power](https://cinepixo.com/people/tyrone-power) - [Tyler Brooke](https://cinepixo.com/people/tyler-brooke) - [Robert Lowery](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lowery) - [Charles Pearce Coleman](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-pearce-coleman) - [Harold Goodwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-goodwin) - [Jack Haley](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-haley) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/alexanders-ragtime-band-1938 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1619977); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.