Travel montage to jazz band in a freight car, Priscilla Lane (as "Character"), Elia Kazan on clarinet, Jack Carson on trumpet, Richard Whorf on guitar, with Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "Hang On To Your Lids," from Blues in the Night, 1941.
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Posted: 11/3/2009
Opening scene from Anatole Litvak's nutty Blues in the Night, 1941, with future major directors Elia Kazan (as "Nickie") and Richard Whorf (as "Jigger") and Bowery Boy Billy Halop (as "Peppi").
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Posted: 11/3/2009
Vampy Kay (Betty Field) negotiating with escaped convict and ex-gang boss Del (Lloyd Nolan) then trampling on her lackey semi-boyfriend Brad (Wallace Ford) in a grim scene from Anatole Litvak's Blues in the Night, 1941.
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Posted: 11/3/2009
Jigger (Richard Whorf) and the gang exhort Leo (Jack Carson) to show off his chops in a dinner club being blown down by the real Jimmie Lunceford and his band in Anatole Litvak's Blues in the Night, 1941.
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Posted: 11/3/2009