This film is a perfect example of how music may carry out the plot. That scene where the black actors leave Basin St. via the blues was memorable.
This is a film basically about the accommodation of the blues and classical music.
The cast is wonderful. Billie Holliday sings her heart out and Louis Armstrong is fine as usual on the trumpet. Satchmo was even given one scene to act and he does real fine. Also, there is some fine acting by Marjorie Lord, as a rich alcoholic who is hopefully in love with the main character Duquesne, played by Arturo de Cordova. Coming from different worlds from Dorothy Patrick, her mother, Irene Rich, destroys Basin St. and forces the exodus.
Both make it big in Chicago and Europe, respectively and their joining together and the acceptance of jazz among high society highlights the film. Wasn't that Shelley Winters sitting in the seat at film's end?
This is a film basically about the accommodation of the blues and classical music.
The cast is wonderful. Billie Holliday sings her heart out and Louis Armstrong is fine as usual on the trumpet. Satchmo was even given one scene to act and he does real fine. Also, there is some fine acting by Marjorie Lord, as a rich alcoholic who is hopefully in love with the main character Duquesne, played by Arturo de Cordova. Coming from different worlds from Dorothy Patrick, her mother, Irene Rich, destroys Basin St. and forces the exodus.
Both make it big in Chicago and Europe, respectively and their joining together and the acceptance of jazz among high society highlights the film. Wasn't that Shelley Winters sitting in the seat at film's end?