Jimmie Lunceford and His Dance Orchestra (1936)

Starring:

• Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra
• The Three Brown Jacks
• Myra Taylor
• Moses Allen
• Earl 'Jock' Carruthers
• Jimmie Crawford
• Sy Oliver
• Willie 'The Lion' Smith
• Joe Thomas
• Paul Thomas
• Eddie Tompkins
• Paul Francis Webster

Storyline

A typical sepia band, with a ritzy aggregation of hot-cha instrument men. The band does several numbers with different members doing their specialty with great gusto and zip. Also, there are te The Brown Jacks, lively steppers, and Mya Johnson doing a hit song number.

The Black Network (1936)

Starring:

• Nina Mae McKinney 
• The Nicholas Brothers
• The Washboard Serenaders
• Emmett 'Babe' Wallace 
• Amanda Randolph 
• Bill 'Basement' Brown 

Storyline
Brutus Johnson, owner of the Porter Pullman Shoe Polish Company, sponsors the Porter Pullman Shoe Polish Variety Program on the Black Network Broadcasting Co. Mezzanine Johnson, Brutus' controlling wife, has her own views of what she would like to happen on the show, she who believes has the right since it is her father who put up the money for the business. Mezzanine wants to take over the lead female singer spot from Nina Mae McKinney. This news does not sit well with Brutus, who still cannot control what his wife does. It also does not sit well with either Nina or Emmett 'Babe' Wallace, her male counterpart, the two who see themselves as a team and who learn the news through the grapevine. As the show continues and Mezzanine plots her take-over, Nina Mae and Babe have to figure out what to do to save their spots and to save the show. Nina Mae and Babe may get some unwitting help from The Nicholas Brothers, who plan to audition for the amateur segment of the show but who sell lucky number tickets as their regular business, and the radio listening public. 

Ouanga [a.k.a. The Love Wanga] (1936)

Starring:

• Fredi Washington 
• Philip Brandon
• Marie Paxton

Storyline
In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage.