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Juke Joint

"The Joint is Jumpin'! / The Jive is Jivvin'! / The Jam is Jammin'! / Everybody's High in the Happy Slap-Happy Holiday Family!"

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1947 · 1h 8m
Drama, Comedy
Starring Spencer Williams · July Jones · Katherine Moore
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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.

Theatrical
Jan 1, 1947
Director
Spencer Williams
Producers
Bert Goldberg, Alfred N. Sack
Studio
Sack Amusement Enterprises
Keywords
beauty contest dallas, texas jitterbug penniless lodgers black community three daughters deep south
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Cast

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S
Spencer Williams
Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
J
July Jones
'Cornbread' Green
K
Katherine Moore
Florida Holiday
A
Albert Smith
'High Life' Harris
H
Howard Galloway
'Juke Joint' Johnny

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