St Louis Blues (1929) (Short Film)

Legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.

Cast: Bessie Smith, James P. Johnson, Alec Lovejoy, Jimmy Mordecai, Thomas Morris, Isabel Washington, Bernard Addison, Hall Johnson Choir
Director: Dudley Murphy
Photography: Walter Strenge
Producer: W. C. Handy
Editor: Russell G. Shields
Distributor: RKO Pictures

Release Date: November 5, 1929
Running Time: 16 minutes

Murphy, Dudley, et al. St. Louis Blues. 1929. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00063365/