Beale Street Mama
Cast & Crew
Spencer Williams
July Jones
Spencer Williams
Rosalie Larrimore
Howard Galloway
J. W. Hemmings
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
On Memphis' famed Beale Street, the home of Memphis Blues and St. Louis Blues, a birthday party for Pretty Boy Brown, given by golddigger Mathilda, is underway. When Mathilda's old flame July Jones, whom she took for everything he was worth, crashes the party, she tells Pretty Boy that July was merely her "policy writer." Later, Mathilda notices that the penniless July has taken a job as a street sweeper and tries to make him jealous by having Pretty Boy kiss her in his view. Shortly after a newspaper story about Mathilda riding around town with Bad News Johnson in a car paid for by July appears in the Beale Street Bugle , a parcel filled with money is thrown out a window and lands at July's feet. Believing that his luck has finally changed, and unaware that the money he found is counterfeit, July celebrates his newly-found wealth by throwing money into a crowd of people along Beale Street. To get back at Mathilda, July buys a new suit and takes a pretty date with him to a nightclub, where he tries to make Mathilda jealous. Although July's plan works, his luck runs out when detectives enter the club and arrest him on charges of passing counterfeit money. July winds up in jail but is released when the real counterfeiters are captured. Back on the streets, July encounters some of his friends, who jump on him for passing fake money on to them and steal his clothes.
Director
Spencer Williams
Cast
July Jones
Spencer Williams
Rosalie Larrimore
Howard Galloway
J. W. Hemmings
Montyne Mccormick
Mary Louise Stevens
George Sutton
Allen And Allen
Joyce Mcelrath
Don Albert
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Although the onscreen credits include a copyright statement for Sack Amusement Enterprises, the film was not registered for copyright. No reviews have been located for the film, but it was evaluated for release by New York censors in 1946 and was accepted without eliminations for exhibition in the state. A modern source states that this film was made in Texas.
