Melancholy Mama (1929)
A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
- Date of release
- 1929-02-02
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 21m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Arvid E. Gillstrom
Casting
- Edward Thompson — Permanent Williams
- Evelyn Preer — Jonquil Williams
- Spencer Williams — Webster Dill
- Roberta Hyson — Sappho Dill
- Charles Olden — Florian Slappey
Interesting facts
The Melancholy Dame is a 1929 American comedy short film with an African-American cast. Al Christie based it on the Octavus Roy Cohen comedy series called "Darktown Birmingham", published in the Saturday Evening Post. Arvid Gillstrom directed it and Evelyn Preer played the title role.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Jim Jefferies: Freedumb 2016 · ★ 7.2
- Babes 2024 · ★ 6.0
- Love Happy 1949 · ★ 5.8
- Back to the Beach 1987 · ★ 5.9
- Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer 2024 · ★ 6.4
- Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer 2025 · ★ 6.8
- Pretty Persuasion 2005 · ★ 5.8
- I Love My Dad 2022 · ★ 5.9
- Die, Mommie, Die! 2003 · ★ 6.6
- She Done Him Wrong 1933 · ★ 5.9
- The Mouse That Roared 1959 · ★ 6.4
- Rock-a-Bye Baby 1958 · ★ 6.9