Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
Spencer Williams
Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
Juke Joint
“The Joint is Jumpin'! / The Jive is Jivvin'! / The Jam is Jammin'! / Everybody's High in the Happy Slap-Happy Holiday Family!”
5.3
1947
1h 8m
ComedyDrama
Director: Spencer Williams
Overview
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
'Cornbread' Green
July Jones
'Cornbread' Green
Louella 'Mama Lou' Holiday
Inez Newell
Louella 'Mama Lou' Holiday
Samuel 'Papa Sam' Holiday
Leonard Duncan
Samuel 'Papa Sam' Holiday
Barbara 'Honey Dew' Holiday
Dauphine Moore
Barbara 'Honey Dew' Holiday
Florida Holiday
Katherine Moore
Florida Holiday
Jefferson Lee
Tilford Patterson
Jefferson Lee
'High Life' Harris
Albert Smith
'High Life' Harris
'Juke Joint' Johnny
Howard Galloway
'Juke Joint' Johnny
Melody Holiday
Melody Duncan
Melody Holiday
Bandleader
Red Calhoun
Bandleader
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