Juke Joint
“The Joint is Jumpin'! / The Jive is Jivvin'! / The Jam is Jammin'! / Everybody's High in the Happy Slap-Happy Holiday Family!”
1947•1h 8m•6.5•Released
ComedyDrama
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.
Director
Spencer Williams
Writer
True T. Thompson
Languages
English
Studio
Sack Amusement Enterprises
Cast
Spencer Williams
Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
July Jones
'Cornbread' Green
Inez Newell
Louella 'Mama Lou' Holiday
Leonard Duncan
Samuel 'Papa Sam' Holiday
Dauphine Moore
Barbara 'Honey Dew' Holiday
Katherine Moore
Florida Holiday
Tilford Patterson
Jefferson Lee
Albert Smith
'High Life' Harris
Howard Galloway
'Juke Joint' Johnny
Melody Duncan
Melody Holiday
Red Calhoun
Bandleader
Production
Company
Sack Amusement Enterprises
Producer
Bert Goldberg
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