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Birth of the Blues

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Calorie Rating: 122
Released: 1941-11-07
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Studios: Paramount Pictures,


Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.

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Cast

Bing Crosby
Character: Jeff Lambert
Mary Martin
Character: Betty Lou Cobb
Brian Donlevy
Character: Memphis

Carolyn Lee
Character: Aunt Phoebe Cobb
J. Carrol Naish
Character: Blackie

Warren Hymer
Character: Limpy
Horace McMahon
Character: Wolf
Ruby Elzy
Character: Ruby

Jack Teagarden
Character: Pepper
Danny Beck
Character: Deek
Harry Barris
Character: Suds

Perry Botkin Sr.
Character: Leo
Minor Watson
Character: Henri Lambert
Harry Rosenthal
Character: Piano Player

Donald Kerr
Character: Skeeter, Barbershop Musician
Barbara Pepper
Character: Maizie
Cecil Kellaway
Character: Granet

Ronnie Cosby
Character: Jeff as a Boy
Ted Lewis
Character: Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Character: Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong
Character: Self (archive footage)
Tommy Dorsey
Character: Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Dorsey
Character: Self (archive footage)

Benny Goodman
Character: Self (archive footage)
Paul Whiteman
Character: Self (archive footage)
Roscoe Ates
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)

Charles Lane
Character: Wilbur - Bijou Theater Manager (uncredited)
Mantan Moreland
Character: Black Trumpet Player (uncredited)


Production and Crew


Ernst Fegté
Art Direction

Edith Head
Costume Design
Monta Bell
Producer
Hans Dreier
Art Direction

William C. Mellor
Director of Photography