Lulu Belle

Lulu Belle

Why did scandal always follow LULU BELLE... Men found out about her too late.

1948 · 86 min · ★ 5.0 · Romance, Drama

Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.

Directed by Leslie Fenton · Written by Everett Freeman

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Dorothy Lamour Lulu Belle
George Montgomery George Davis
Albert Dekker Mark Brady
Otto Kruger Harry Randolph
Glenda Farrell Molly Benson
Greg McClure Butch Cooper
Charlotte Wynters Mrs. Gloria Randolph
Addison Richards Police Commissioner John Dixon
William Haade Duke Weaver

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