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Blues In The Night

1941, Movie, NR, 89 mins

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Musical melodrama about a jazz quintet featuring sharp dialog from the pens of Gilbert (who wrote the original play) and Rossen (screenplay), who went on to become an important director/writer. Lane toplines as the wife of Carson, leader of the group, and sings several of the tunes. Mercer and Arlen got an Oscar nomination for the title tune, but lost out to "The Last Time I Saw Paris." Field is the bad girl and Nolan is the heavy (an escaped convict lost in New Jersey. What... read more leave a comment
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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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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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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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
Year: 1941
Rated NR

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Cast
Priscilla Lane: Ginger Powell
Betty Field: Kay Grant
Richard Whorf: Jigger Pine
Lloyd Nolan: Del Davis
Jack Carson: Leo Powell
Wallace Ford: Brad Ames

 

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