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Blacks -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
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Blacks -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
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Boarding house blues [videorecording (DVD)].
Alpha Video, c2005.
Call #:
DVD BOA Mus
Subjects
Blacks -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Alternate title:
Boardinghouse blues [videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 videodisc (87 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Originally produced as motion picture in 1948.
Home use only.
Production:
All American ; produced by E.M. Glucksman ; directed by Josh
Binney
; original story by Hal Seeger.
Performers:
Jackie "Moms" Mabely with Dusty Fletcher, John D. Lee Jr., Marcellus Wilson and Freddie Robinson and featuring performances by Lucky Millinder and his band, Una Mae Carlisle, the Berry Brothers, Bull Moose Jackson, Lewis & White, Anistine Allen, Paul Breckenridge, Stump and Stumpy, The Lee Norman Trio and "Crip" Heard.
Summary:
"'Moms' Mabley oversees a boarding house of down-'n-out vaudevillians who put on a show to raise the money for the rent. 'Moms' and little tramp Dusty Fletcher play host to the boarding house's zany tenants. Almost exclusively performed by an all-black cast, Boarding House Blues was made for an African-American audience and as a result, possesses a tone and spirit radically different than most films of the '40s. Still fresh and unapologetically unrefined, Boarding House Blues is an unusual musical comedy revue featuring show-stopping performances from alluring singing pianist Una Mae Carlisle, rapscallions Stump and Stumpy and the legendary 'Crip' Heard - a dancer with only one leg and one arm. Born Loretta Mary Aiken in 1894, Jackie Mabley, better known as 'Moms,' made a career of spinning hardship into comic gold. With her pioneering comedic forays into race relations, feminist and lesbian issues, 'Moms' Mabley is best remembered for nine classic comedy albums recorded for Chess Records and her appearance in the feature film Amazing Grace (1974)."--Container.
Genre:
Musical films.
Comedy films.
Race films.
Urban drama (Films)
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Binney
, Josh,
1889-1956
.
Mabley, Moms.
Fletcher, Clinton Dusty.
Carlisle, Una Mae, 1915-1956.
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Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD BOA Mus
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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