Beat Generation, The (1959) - (Movie Clip) Bass Fiddle Without Strings

Beat Generation, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Radiation Gumdrops

Classy opening to a low-rent Albert Zugsmith production, Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars (notably Mort Herbert on bass, Peanuts Hucko clarinet) with the title tune, then Ray Danton with banter, Ann Anderson his puzzled date, in The Beat Generation, 1959, featuring Mamie Van Doren.

Beat Generation, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Like To Make The Scene

Four reels into the movie, second-billed Mamie Van Doren at last appears as divorcee Georgia, visited by Jim Mitchum (Robert's brother), who's been blackmailed by a psychopath into committing a murder, Mamie's husband, the band-leader Ray Anthony, playing her ex, in The Beat Generation, 1959.