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Juke Joint (1947)

Juke Joint (1947)

Drama Comedy

The Joint is Jumpin'! / The Jive is Jivvin'! / The Jam is Jammin'! / Everybody's High in the Happy Slap-Happy Holiday Family!

Release Date: 1947, January 1
Directors: Spencer Williams
Countries: United States of America
Production: Sack Amusement Enterprises, Sack Amusement Enterprises
Cast: Albert Smith, Katherine Moore, July Jones, Spencer Williams, Inez Newell, Leonard Duncan, Dauphine Moore, Tilford Patterson, Howard Galloway, Melody Duncan

Overview:

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.

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