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Where to Watch Juke Joint (1947)
The Joint is Jumpin'! / The Jive is Jivvin'! / The Jam is Jammin'! / Everybody's High in the Happy Slap-Happy Holiday Family!
Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.
ComedyDrama 68 min
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- Spencer Williams as Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
- July Jones as 'Cornbread' Green
- Inez Newell as Louella 'Mama Lou' Holiday
- Leonard Duncan as Samuel 'Papa Sam' Holiday
- Dauphine Moore as Barbara 'Honey Dew' Holiday