Juke Joint
Film194768 min6.5/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Spencer Williams
The Joint is Jumpin'! / The Jive is Jivvin'! / The Jam is Jammin'! / Everybody's High in the Happy Slap-Happy Holiday Family!
The story
Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.
Cast & crew
Spencer WilliamsBad News Johnson / Vanderbilt WhitneyJuly Jones
July Jones'Cornbread' GreenInez Newell
Inez NewellLouella 'Mama Lou' HolidayLeonard Duncan
Leonard DuncanSamuel 'Papa Sam' HolidayDauphine Moore
Dauphine MooreBarbara 'Honey Dew' HolidayKatherine Moore
Katherine MooreFlorida HolidayTilford Patterson
Tilford PattersonJefferson LeeAlbert Smith
Albert Smith'High Life' HarrisHoward Galloway
Howard Galloway'Juke Joint' JohnnyMelody Duncan
Melody DuncanMelody HolidayRed Calhoun
Red CalhounBandleaderExplore the crew
- Director
- Spencer Williams
- Writer
- True T. Thompson
- Producer
- Bert Goldberg
- Director of Photography
- George Sanderson