This little-seen 1947 drama is a treat for jazz fans thanks to an otherwise creaky if nobly intentioned story built around the music's Crescent City genesis that provides an ample excuse to turn the camera on authentic jazz greats. Nick Duquesne (Arturo De Cordova) is a Bourbon Street charmer whose gambling club provides the mythic stomping grounds for none other than Louis Armstrong whose vocalizing sweetheart Endie played by none other than Billie Holiday proves no slouch herself. A newly arrived debutante Miralee (Dorothy Patrick) arrives in New Orleans and... falls first for the music and then for the roguish but ultimately gallant Nick. The movie follows knee-jerk plot machinations revolving around her family's efforts to excise Nick from her life her own dream of mingling jazz and classical music and the gambler's transformation into a jazz promoter. [show more]
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