Set during the Golden Age of Jazz circa 1917, Arturo De Cordova stars as Nick, the proprietor of a Bourbon Street gambling joint, an artistic haven for black musicians who gather to jam from dusk ’til dawn. When he falls in love with an opera-singing socialite, Nick realizes that only through music will he gain respectability, and launches a campaign to thrust the disreputable music known as jazz onto the highbrow American stage.
Director: Arthur Lubin.
Writers: Elliot Paul & Dick Irving Hyland (screenplay), Elliot Paul & Herbert J. Biberman (from an original story by).
Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Dorothy Patrick, Irene Rich, Marjorie Lord, John Alexander, Richard Hageman, Jack Lambert, Bert Conway, John Blair, John Canady, Louis Armstrong and His Band, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman and His Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, Zutty Singleton, Barney Bigard, Kid Ory, Bud Scott, George ‘Red’ Callender, Charlie Beal, Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis.
Cinematographer: Lucien N. Andriot.
Composers: Nat W. Finston (uncredited), Woody Herman (uncredited).
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