Birth of the Blues 1941 N/R, 80 min. Genre: Musical
Director: Victor Schertzinger Cast: Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy, Carolyn Lee, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Jack Teagarden, J. Carrol Naish, Cecil Kellaway, Warren Hymer, Horace McMahon
The music is great, but the story of New Orleans jazz is told from the white–not the African-American–perspective and loses its true meaning in the process.
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