St. Louis Blues

Name: St. Louis Blues
Director: Dudley Murphy
Genre: Drama, Music, Short
Released: 1929-09-08
Duration: 960000 s
Cast: Bessie Smith, James P. Johnson, Alec Lovejoy

Directed by Dudley Murphy

Not Rated

1929 16m[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama), [Music](/on-demand/category/music)

6.55.4

In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.