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1949-1951
Performs in Switzerland and Italy. Appears on the Big Show (television) with Tallulah Bankhead. Films Glory Alley. Records with Louis Jordan and with Sy Oliver.
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Louis arrives in Hawaii, 1952.
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1952
Tours Canada, Colorado, Hawaii, Germany, and Belgium.
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Louis with Jimmy Stewart on the set of The Glenn Miller Story.
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1953
Six-week concert tour with Benny Goodman cut short after Goodman becomes ill. Films The Glen Miller Story. First tour of Japan.
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Louis with fans in Japan, 1954.
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1954
Publishes second autobiography Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, which covers his life only up until 1922. Tours Australia and Japan. Records Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography for Decca Records. Records Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy for Columbia Records.
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Louis and Lucille on the set of the Ed Sullivan Show, 1955.
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1955
Performs in Los Angeles and in New Orleans. Performs in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Italy. Appears on the Ed Sullivan Show. Records "Mack the Knife" for Columbia Records. Records Satch Plays Fats (an album of compositions by Fats Waller) for Columbia Records.
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Louis, Edmund Hall, and Trummy Young in performance in Acra, Ghana, 1956.
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1956
Appears in the motion picture High Society with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. First tour of Africa. Performs for 100,000 at the polo grounds in Accra. Edward R. Murrow makes the documentary Satchmo the Great. Tours Australia and Japan. Records with Ella Fitzgerald for Verve Records.
1957
Tours South America and Europe. Speaks out strongly against racial injustice – especially the refusal of Little Rock, Arkansas, to integrate its schools – and cancels his tour of Russia in protest. Records second album with Ella Fitzgerald for Verve Records.
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Louis with fans in Rome, Italy, 1959.
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1958
Louis's appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival is captured in the motion picture Jazz on a Summer's Day. Appears twice on the Timex Show (NBC television). Films The Five Pennies with Danny Kaye. Films The Beat Generation.
1959
Performs in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. Has heart attack in Spoleto, Italy and is briefly hospitalized. Appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, and the Bing Crosby Oldsmobile Show.
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