Beale Street Mama
Beale Street Mama is a 1923 popular song by J. Russell Robinson and Roy Turk. An early jazz standard, it was recorded by Bessie Smith, Ted Lewis, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, and many others.
| Beale Street Mama | |
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| Directed by | Spencer Williams |
| Produced by | Bert Goldberg |
| Written by | Sam Elljay |
| Starring | July Jones Spencer Williams Rosalie Larrimore |
| Music by | Vincent Valentini |
| Cinematography | H. Arthur Smith |
| Distributed by | Sack Amusement Enterprises |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Beale Street Mama is a 1946 race film directed by and starring Spencer Williams and distributed by Sack Amusement Enterprises, named after the famous song. The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly acquired wealth to go on a spending spree, with the hope of getting back at an old girlfriend who dumped him for another man. However, complications arise when it is discovered the money is counterfeit.[1][2]
No copyright was filed for Beale Street Mama, which makes the production a public domain film.[1]