Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)





This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.


Books with substantial mentioning of Alexander's Ragtime Band

Don Tyler
The Great Movie Musicals
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2010

Tom Weaver, Biography by Gregory William Mank
John Carradine: The Films
Jefferson, NC, 1999

Dennis Belafonte with Alvin H. Marill
The Films of Tyrone Power
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Books with an entry on Alexander's Ragtime Band

Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross
The Motion Picture Guide, Volume I A-B 1927-1983
Chicago, 1985

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969