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Showing posts with label 1943. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1943. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Backstage Blues (1943, Soundie)












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Storyline
Soundie featuring Lynn Albritton on the piano and the Harlem Dance Cuties (with Lou Ellen).

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Marching On! [a.k.a. Where's My Man To-Nite?"] (1943)


























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Young Rodney Tucker Jr. is leading an aimless life. His out-spoken grandfather Samuel Tucker, a decorated army veteran, thinks the military would do the boy good, but Rodney wants nothing to do with wearing a uniform. Uncle Sam has his own ideas, and a surprising piece of mail arrives, "inviting" Rodney to visit his local draft board. Boot camp rubs Rodney the wrong way and he soon goes AWOL. But if Grandpa Tucker has anything to say about it, Rodney will make something out of himself yet.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Stormy Weather (1943)





























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Dancing great Bill 'Williamson' sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: just back from World War I, he meets lovely singer Selina Rogers at a soldiers' ball and promises to come back to her when he "gets to be somebody." Years go by, and Bill and Selina's rising careers intersect only briefly since Selina is unwilling to "settle down." Will she ever change her mind? Concludes with a big all-star show hosted by Cab Calloway.