St. Louis Blues (1958)

Directors

Allen Reisner

Cast

Billy Preston, Cab Calloway, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Juano Hernández, Mahalia Jackson, Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, Ruby Dee

The story

At the turn of the century in Memphis, a young boy named W.C. Handy (Billy Preston) is caught with a trumpet he bought by his Aunt Hagar (Pearl Bailey). His father, the Reverend Charles Handy (Juano Hernandez) rejects all music other than church hymns as songs of Satan, and destroys the trumpet upon discovery.

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