Birth of the Blues (1941)
Directed by Victor Schertzinger · 86 min · Music, Romance
5.1 TOPICAL score · #6,156 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Birth of the Blues (1941, directed by Victor Schertzinger) has a TOPICAL score of 5.1 - ranked 6,156 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and cast, and lowest on historical impact. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Audiences: TMDB 6.2/10 (12 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 8 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 6.2/10 (12 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 8 languages
- Still read637 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Bing Crosby (actor #527), Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy (actor #1,424), Carolyn Lee