Juke Joint is a 1947 race film directed by and starring Spencer Williams and produced and released by Sack Amusement Enterprises. The film was considered lost until being rediscovered.
Juke Joint 1946 HD | comedy & Drama film directed by Spencer Williams | Spencer Williams, July Jones & Inez Newell
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Hitch-hiking conmen Bad News Johnson (Spencer Williams) and July Jones arrive in a Midwestern small town with a capital of 25 cents. Taking a room with Mama Lou (Inez Newell), whose daughter (Melody Duncan) is entered in a local beauty contest, they pose as Hollywood actors who can train Honey Dew in stagecraft. Meanwhile, Mama’s other daughter Florida (Katherine Moore) prepares to elope to Chicago with Johnny (Howard Galloway), owner of the Juke Joint…where, after a jitterbug contest, Mama herself takes a hand.
Plot
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. Johnson is constantly exasperated at Jones’ deficient perspicacity, and at one point he comments that Jones is so dense that he probably thinks “Veronica Lake is some kind of summer resort.” The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella “Mama Lou” Holiday, who is fooled into believing that Johnson is an acting teacher named Whitney Vanderbilt; Jones takes the alias of Cornbread Green. 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. The lessons pay off and Honey Dew wins the beauty contest, but problems arise when Mrs. Holiday’s husband, Papa Sam, decides to hold a party for the new beauty queen at a disreputable juke joint.
Cast
- Spencer Williams as Whitney Vanderbilt
- July Jones as “Cornbred” Green
- Inez Newell as “Mama Lou” Holiday
- Leonard Duncan as “Papa Sam” Holiday
- Dauphine Moore as “Honey Dew” Holiday
- Melody Duncan as Melody Holuday
- Katherine Moore as Florida Holiday
- Alford Patterson as Jefferson Lee
- Albert Smith as “High Life” Harris
- Howard Galloway as Juke Joint Johnny
- Clifford Beamon as Bartender
- Frances McHugh as Waitress
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