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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
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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