St. Louis Blues (1929)

Name: St. Louis Blues
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 1929-09-08
Duration: 16 min
Cast: Bessie Smith, James P. Johnson, Alec Lovejoy, Jimmy Mordecai, Isabel Washington

Queen of the Blues

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.