Juke Joint

The Joint is Jumpin'! / The Jive is Jivvin'! / The Jam is Jammin'! / Everybody's High in the Happy Slap-Happy Holiday Family!

APPROPIATE

1947 / 68min.

Rating5.3

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Synopsis

Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.

Directors

Actors

Howard Galloway

Albert Smith

Spencer Williams

Dauphine Moore

Leonard Duncan

July Jones

Inez Newell

Katherine Moore

Tilford Patterson

Melody Duncan

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