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Honky Tonk

1929, Movie, NR, 68 mins

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Tucker stars in her first feature as a nightclub singer who sacrifices everything to send her young daughter abroad to be educated. When the grown daughter (Lee) returns from Europe, she is shocked to discover that her mother is nothing more than a nightclub entertainer singing for drunks (a secret that had been kept from her since childhood), and disowns her. Tucker spends the rest of the film playing the rejected but loving mother while crooning sad songs. The songs (writt... read more leave a comment
Year: 1929
Rated NR

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Cast
Sophie Tucker: Sophie Leonard
Lila Lee: Sophie's Daughter Beth
Audrey Ferris: Jean Gilmore
Tom Keene: Freddie Gilmore
Mahlon Hamilton: Jim
John T. Murray: Cafe Manager

 

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