St. Louis Blues (1939)
1h 32m
Running Time
February 3, 1939Release Date
St. Louis Blues (1939)
1h 32m
Running Time
February 3, 1939Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue. But a competing carnival owner hatches a scheme to put an end to the show before it begins.
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Cast & Crew.
Dorothy Lamour
Norma Malone
Lloyd Nolan
Dave Geurney
Tito Guízar
Rafael San Ramos
Jessie Ralph
Aunt Tibbie
Jerome Cowan
Ivan DeBrett
William Frawley
Major Martingale
Raoul Walsh
Director
Maxine Sullivan
Ida
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
St. Louis Blues (retitled as Best of the Blues) is a 1939 American musical film directed by Raoul Walsh and set on a Mississippi River showboat. Though the song "St. Louis Blues" is performed, the film's plot is not based on the song. Artists appearing in the film include jazz singer Maxine Sullivan and composer/singer/actor Hoagy Carmichael. The film stars Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan, Tito Guízar, Jerome Cowan and Mary Parker.
Lamour sings "I Go for That" by Matt Malneck, Jr. and Frank Loesser in the film, and it became a hit recording.