Reet, Petite, and Gone

Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947)

Old-time musical star Schyler Jarvis, now wealthy, is dying; his last act is a visionary plan for the future happiness of his son, swing bandleader Louis Jarvis, and Honey Carter, daughter of his long-lost love. But crooked lawyer Talbot has a nefarious scheme to get his hands on the Jarvis money...and it doesn't include any happiness for Louis and Honey. Plenty of swing from Louis Jordan's Tympany Five.

Date of release
1947-01-01
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 7m
Genres
Music
Director
William Forest Crouch

Casting

Interesting facts

Reet, Petite, and Gone is a 1947 American musical race film produced and released by Astor Pictures. It was the second of three feature films produced and directed by short-subject director William Forest Crouch starring singer and bandleader Louis Jordan.

Production

Producer-director-writer William Forest Crouch had been making Soundies—three-minute movie musicals for coin-operated "movie jukeboxes". His 20-minute musical made for theaters, Caldonia (1945), starred Louis Jordan, and was so successful that Crouch signed Jordan for three feature films. Reet, Petite, and Gone was the second.

Crouch made his films on low budgets with fast-paced, assembly-line methods at the former Edison studio in New York City. Scenes were rarely photographed more than twice—once for long shots and once for close-ups—and if the actors couldn't remember the scripted dialogue, they said something appropriate anyway, knowing that the schedule didn't call for repeated takes.

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