Juke Joint

Juke Joint

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

1947 · 68 min · ★ 6.5 · Comedy, Drama

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.

Directed by Spencer Williams · Written by True T. Thompson

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Spencer Williams Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
July Jones 'Cornbread' Green
Inez Newell Louella 'Mama Lou' Holiday
Leonard Duncan Samuel 'Papa Sam' Holiday
Dauphine Moore Barbara 'Honey Dew' Holiday
Katherine Moore Florida Holiday
Tilford Patterson Jefferson Lee
Albert Smith 'High Life' Harris
Howard Galloway 'Juke Joint' Johnny
Melody Duncan Melody Holiday
Red Calhoun Bandleader

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