PassedBirth of the Blues

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IMDB (449 votes)

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Play Time: 87 mins
Music, Romance
Birth of the Blues

Overview:
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.

Status: Released (1941-11-07)
Awards:Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 1 nomination total
Screen:Harry Tugend, Walter DeLeon, Erwin Gelsey
Productions: Paramount Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
Birth of the Blues
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It’s set in the American Deep South in the late 1930s so of course there are going to be unsavoury racial overtones, but in some ways this films strives to suggest that by using jazz music and the wholesomeness of Bing Crosby, there might be some green shoots of desegregation startin ....

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