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St. Louis Blues

1958, Movie, NR, 93 mins

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Cole is featured as W.C. Handy, famed black composer of immortal blues tunes. His father (Hernandez) is a minister who feels his son is playing "the devil's music," but Cole finally chooses the music he knows he does best. Kitt is a New Orleans singer who encourages him, and Dee a local girl who simply wants to make him happy. Tragedy strikes when psychosomatic blindness sets in, but Cole eventually overcomes this, becomes widely admired for his music, and wins grudging acce... read more leave a comment
Year: 1958
Rated NR

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Cast
Nat "King" Cole: W.C. Handy
Eartha Kitt: Gogo Germaine
Pearl Bailey: Aunt Hagar
Cab Calloway: Blade
Ella Fitzgerald: Herself
Mahalia Jackson: Bessie May

 

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The life of legendary bluesman W.C. Handy is the subject of this 1958 musical biography...
Free | TCM

Posted: 8/1/2008
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