New Orleans
A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Released
- 1947
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1947
Storyline
A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.
Top credits
Arturo de Córdova — Nick Duquesne
Dorothy Patrick — Miralee Smith
Marjorie Lord — Grace Voiselle
Irene Rich — Mrs. Rutledge Smith
Did you know
• This is the only time Billie Holiday performs in a feature film.
• Richard Hageman (Henry Ferber) was an accomplished musician and conductor. In every scene showing him playing the piano, he is obviously playing all the correct notes.
• Grace, the hard-drinking debutante who dies in a car accident, is played by an actress best known for a role about 180° from this performance. A decade after appearing here, Marjorie Lord was cast as the decidedly straight-laced wife on the long-running sitcom The Danny Thomas Show (1953).
User reviews
Love this movie for what it is, not for what it could have been
The musicians alone make this a worthwhile movie...
Chock full of music
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
