Beale Street Mama (1946)
Wives, lock up your husbands! Husbands, run for your lives!
A Memphis street sweeper comes upon a large parcel of money, which he uses to embark on a spending spree in hopes of getting back at an old girlfriend who dumped him for another. However, complications arise when it's discovered the money is counterfeit.
- Date of release
- 1946-01-01
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Spencer Williams
Casting
- July Jones — July Jones
- Spencer Williams — Bad News Johnson
- Rosalie Larrimore — Mathilda Mae Grimes
- Howard Galloway — Pretty Boy Brown
- J.W. Hemmings — Chief of Police
- Montgne McCormy — Hazel Smith
- Mary Louise Stevens — Rosie Scott
- George T. Sutton — Detective
- Allen and Allen — Entertainers
- Joyce McElrath — Entertainer
- Don Albert — Himself, Band Leader
Interesting facts
Beale Street Mama is a 1923 popular song by J. Russell Robinson and Roy Turk and a 1946 film with an African-American cast named for the song. An early jazz standard, the song was recorded by Bessie Smith, Ted Lewis, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, and many others.
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