Boarding House Blues (1948)
In order to save their home, tenants of a boarding house put on a show.
- Date of release
- 1948-09-01
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Director
- Josh Binney
Casting
- Moms Mabley — Moms
- Dusty Fletcher — Dusty
- Marcellus Wilson — Jerry
- Marie Cooke — Lila Foster
- Augustus Smith — Norman Norman
- John D. Lee Jr. — Stanley
- Emory Richardson — Simon
- Harold Cromer — Moofty
- Sidney Easton — Boo Boo (as Sid Easton)
- Freddie Robinson — Freddie
- John 'Spider Bruce' Mason — Boarders
- John Riano — Steggy
Interesting facts
Boarding House Blues is a 1948 American musical race film directed by Josh Binney which featured the first starring film role by Moms Mabley. It was the penultimate feature film of All-American News, a company that made newsreels about black Americans.
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