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Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
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Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: A musical melodrama about jazz age musicians and their run-ins with some prohibition-era mobsters. Set in Kansas City, Ella Fitzgerald sings the title tune and "Hard-Hearted Hannah." Lee performs... A musical melodrama about jazz age musicians and their run-ins with some prohibition-era mobsters. Set in Kansas City, Ella Fitzgerald sings the title tune and "Hard-Hearted Hannah." Lee performs "Sing a Rainbow," "Sugar," and "He Needs Me." Academy Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actress--Peggy Lee. [More]
Starring: Jack Webb, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee, Janet Leigh
Starring: Jack Webb, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee, Janet Leigh, Lee Marvin, Jayne Mansfield, Andy Devine, Ella Fitzgerald
Director: Jack Webb
Director: Jack Webb
Producer: Jack Webb
Screenwriter: Richard Breen
Composer: Ray Heindorf, Sammy Cahn, Arthur Hamilton
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Like Love Me or Leave Me, also made in 1955, Webb's film is set in the golden age of Prohibition, mixing crime-gangster drama with great jazz music by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee, who received a Supporting Oscar nomination.
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