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Showing posts with label 1933. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1933. Show all posts

Monday, June 21, 2021

Mills Blue Rhythm Band (1933)

























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Lively music, hot singing, and fast dancing make this a very entertaining subject of its kind. After a higher club introduction, Hamtree Harrington takes the gang up to his Harlem penthouse apartment for a rent party, and several more numbers are put on there.

That's the Spirit (1933)
























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Moreland and Miller are nightmen easily terrorized by "ghostly" happenings. La Redd and the Washboard Serenaders provide the song and dancer numbers. Sissle and his band play "Tiger Rug" and "St. Louis Blues."

Friday, April 3, 2020

Barber Shop Blues (1933)
















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An elderly barbershop owner wins a sweepstake and uses the winnings to remodel his run-down shop. For in-house entertainment, he hires his musician friends as the jazz orchestra and the four shoeshiners that are skilled tap dancers.