Search

Paris Blues

1961, Movie, NR, 98 mins

starstarstarstar
The story is slim but the jazz is great, especially when legendary Louis Armstrong gets into the act. Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier are American expatriates living in Paris after WW II, playing jazz in a club run by Barbara Laage, who is having a tepid affair with Newman. Read the complete review for Paris Blues
Eddie (Sidney Poitier) conducts Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie (Diahann Carroll) into "Marie's Cave" where band-mate Ram (Paul Newman) sets the hook with Ellington's "Mood Indigo" in Paris Blues, 1961.
Free | TCM

Posted: 9/11/2009
"Take The A Train" is the number with Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier pretending to play in the opening to the pretty-much all Ellington jazz movie Paris Blues, 1961, directed by Martin Ritt.
Free | TCM

Posted: 9/11/2009
American jazz-men Eddie (Sidney Poitier) and Ram (Paul Newman) with three French notables, Roger Blin as "the Gypsy," Francoise Brion as his girlfriend and Helene Dieudonne as a pusher, from Paris Blues, 1961.
Free | TCM

Posted: 9/11/2009
Jazz ex-pat Ram (Paul Newman) arrives to meet "Wild Man Moore" (Louis Armstrong) at the train and is pleased to encounter tourists Connie (Diahann Carroll) and Lillian (Joanne Woodward) in Martin Ritt's Paris Blues, 1961.
Free | TCM

Posted: 9/11/2009
more Paris Blues videos (5 total videos)
Year: 1961
Rated NR

User Rating: (Be the first to rate!)
Add Your Rating: 1 stars2 stars3 stars4 stars5 stars

Cast
Paul Newman: Ram Bowen
Joanne Woodward: Lillian Corning
Sidney Poitier: Eddie Cook
Louis Armstrong: Wild Man Moore
Diahann Carroll: Connie Lampson
Serge Reggiani: Michel Duvigne

 

more Paris Blues cast & details

Loading...
Advertisement

Advertisement