BIRTH OF THE BLUES + BLUE SKIE [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1941
• Genre: Music
• Plot: As a child, Jeff Lambert (Bing Crosby) hangs out in New Orleans' Basin Street, playing hot swing on his clarinet instead of the classics his father prefers. He's inspired by an African-American group there and, some years later, at the turn of the century, sets out to form a jazz band of his own. With cornetist Memphis (Brian Donlevy), singer Betty; Lou Cobb (Mary Martin) and trombonist Jack Teagarden (of the Original Dixieland Jazz Group, after which the story is patterned), he's on his way.; A veritable history of jazz follows. From jump and jive to sweet romanticism, half a century of popular hits is given spectacular treatment. 'By the Light of the Silvery Moon' is sung in a theatre with lantern slides on the screen. Singer Ruby Elzy's 'St. Louis Blues' is backed by a chorus of eighty. And 'Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie' brings Crosby and Martin together in a knockout duet. This bright, bouncy musical is as spirited as they come, and it features 'Bing and Mory at their best.' (Louella 0. Parsons, Los Angeles Examiner);
• Cast: Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy, Carolyn Lee, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, J. Carrol Naish, Warren Hymer, Horace McMahon, Ruby Elzy, Jack Teagarden, Danny Beck, Harry Barris, Perry Botkin Sr., Minor Watson, Harry Rosenthal, Donald Kerr, Barbara Pepper, Cecil Kellaway, Ronnie Cosby, Ted Lewis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Paul Whiteman, Rose Allen, Roscoe Ates, Kathryn Bates, Brooks Benedict, Nell Craig, Jimmie Dundee, Pearl Early, Sarah Edwards, Edward Emerson, Betty Farrington, John Gallaudet, Grace Hayle, Brandon Hurst, Payne B. Johnson, Yvonne Jungquist, Alice Keating, Richard Keene, Charles Lane, Jeni Le Gon, Jimmie Lucas, James T. Mack, Sam McDaniel, John 'Skins' Miller, Bert Moorhouse, Mantan Moreland, Edmund Mortimer, Joe Ploski, Oscar Polk, Victor Potel, Lillian Randolph, Keith Richards, Cyril Ring, Bert Roach, Constantine Romanoff, Hayden Stevenson, Mary Thomas, Bess Wade, Evelyn West, Pat West, Ernest Whitman, Guy Wilkerson, Harry Wilson, Victor Schertzinger, Harry Tugend, Walter DeLeon, Erwin S. Gelsey, Wilkie C. Mahoney
• Director: Victor Schertzinger
• Runtime: 1:22
• Company: Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios
• Media Format: Movie