Spencer Williams Jr. - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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Girl in Room 20 (1949)

Juke Joint (1947)

Beale Street Mama (1946)

Dirty Gertie from Harlem, U.S.A. (1946)

Of One Blood (1945)

Go Down, Death! (1944)

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Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Everybody Loves My Baby

Blood Of Jesus, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Those Days Are Almost Gone

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Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Girl in Room 20 (1949)

Juke Joint (1947)

Beale Street Mama (1946)

Dirty Gertie from Harlem, U.S.A. (1946)

Of One Blood (1945)

Go Down, Death! (1944)

Marching On! (1943)

The Blood of Jesus (1941)

Tenderfeet (1928)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1964)

Hospital assistants

Girl in Room 20 (1949)

Juke Joint (1947)

[Bad News Johnson, also known as] Whitney Vanderbilt

Beale Street Mama (1946)

Bad News Johnson

Dirty Gertie from Harlem, U.S.A. (1946)

Of One Blood (1945)

Go Down, Death! (1944)

The Blood of Jesus (1941)

Son of Ingagi (1940)

Harlem Rides the Range (1939)

The Bronze Buckaroo (1939)

Two Gun Man from Harlem (1938)

Harlem on the Prairie (1937)

Coronado (1935)

Black man with perambulator

The Virginia Judge (1935)

Georgia Rose (1930)

Tenderfeet (1928)

Writer (Feature Film)

Of One Blood (1945)

Marching On! (1943)

The Blood of Jesus (1941)

Son of Ingagi (1940)

Harlem Rides the Range (1939)

Harlem Rides the Range (1939)

Tenderfeet (1928)

Original story and Assistant title wrt

Music (Feature Film)

Meet Monica Velour (2010)

Me and Orson Welles (2009)

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

We Own the Night (2007)

Reign Over Me (2007)

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

Cinderella Man (2005)

The Aviator (2004)

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

The Bachelor (1999)

Song ("Royal Garden Blues")

Mad Dog and Glory (1993)

Mobsters (1991)

Pretty Woman (1990)

New York Stories (1989)

Angel Heart (1987)

Raging Bull (1980)

Saint Jack (1979)

Saint Jack (1979)

Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar (1965)

Ring-a-Ding Rhythm (1962)

The Gene Krupa Story (1960)

St. Louis Blues (1958)

Jazz Ball (1958)

Satchmo the Great (1957)

Love Me or Leave Me (1955)

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

The Strip (1951)

Louisiana (1947)

New Orleans (1947)

Atlantic City (1944)

Sweet and Low-Down (1944)

Scatterbrain (1940)

Visual Effects (Feature Film)

Film Production - Construction/Set (Feature Film)

War Dogs (2016)

Set Production Assistant

Life Events

Videos

Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Everybody Loves My Baby Doris Day as Chicago torch-singer Ruth Etting performs Everybody Loves My Baby and Mean To Me, (Spencer Williams/Jack Palmer, Fred E. Alhert/Roy Turk), both of which became signature songs, her jealous sponsor Marty Snyder (James Cagney) watching, in the acclaimed bio-pic Love Me or Leave Me, 1955.

Blood Of Jesus, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Those Days Are Almost Gone With promotion of the producer Alfred N. Sack, and first-time writer and director Spencer Williams employing biblical language narrating over an African American baptism ceremony shot on location in rural Texas, the opening of the landmark “race” film, The Blood Of Jesus, 1941.

Blood Of Jesus, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Why Don't You Try To Pray? Martha Ann (Cathryn Caviness) on the afternoon of her baptism, speaks to her husband Ras (writer and director Spencer Williams) about his lack of interest in religion, concerned that he may have shot a neighbor’s game on his hunting trip, a key moment in the “race” film The Blood Of Jesus, 1941.

Blood Of Jesus, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Walk Clear Of Temptation Martha Ann (Cathryn Caviness), escorted from what may be her death bed by an angel (Rogenia Goldthwaite), is offered options, the first put forward by satan (James B. Jones) and his cohort Judas Green (Frank H. McClennan), in writer-director Spencer Williams' first feature, The Blood Of Jesus, 1941.

Dirty Gertie From Harlem, U.S.A. -- (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Joe's A Regular Guy After a festive welcome to the island of “Rinidad,” Gertie (Francine Everett) and entourage check into the hotel, greeted by Joe (Don Wilson), Pa and Ma (L.E. Lewis, Inez Newell) and in conversation with Stella (Kathrine Moore) we begin to learn why they’re come, in Spencer Williams’ Dirty Gertie From Harlem U.S.A., 1946.

Dirty Gertie From Harlem, U.S.A. (1946) -- (Movie Clip) She's A Painted Trollop Stella (Kathrine Moore) is confirming that the whole company had to leave Harlem for the islands because headliner Gertie (Francine Everett) mistreated her big-shot boyfriend, even as she begins to make trouble with Mr. Christian (Alfred Hawkins) and on-leave servicemen (Shelly Ross, Hugh Watson), in Dirty Gertie From Harlem U.S.A., 1946.

Dirty Gertie From Harlem, U.S.A. (1946) -- (Movie Clip) The Truth About My Future Exiled stripper Francine Everett (title character), in the Joan Crawford role from Rain, 1932, in this unauthorized re-vamp of the original Somerset Maugham story, decides to visit the island voodoo lady, surprisingly played by writer-director Spencer Williams, in Dirty Gertie From Harlem U.S.A., 1946.

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