Birth of the Blues

Release Date:
Nov 7, 1941
Running Time:
1:20
Genre:
Musical
Director:
Victor Schertzinger
Cast:
Bing Crosby
Mary Martin
Brian Donlevy
J. Carrol Naish Blackie
Language:
English
Related Programs:
Blues in the Night
The Jazz Singer

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Jeff Lambert, who has grown up in New Orleans surrounded by black music, determines to start a band featuring white coronet player Memphis . However, the Basin Street Hotshots are rejected from several venues for playing ''black'' jazz, until singer Betty Lou Cobb insists they be hired as her backup band. The band finds success until Jeff and Memphis fall out over Betty Lou, then get entangled with gangster Blackie .

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