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Movie Info

Musician/composer W.C. Handy (Nat King Cole) forms a band and becomes known as the father of the blues.
  • Genre:
    biography
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Allen Reisner
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Nat King Cole
W.C. Handy
Eartha Kitt
Gogo Germaine
Pearl Bailey
Aunt Hagar
Ruby Dee
Elizabeth
Cab Calloway
Blade
Ella Fitzgerald
Singer
Mahalia Jackson
Bessie May
Allen Reisner
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Critic Reviews for St. Louis Blues

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  • It is really a rather silly, tedious notion of emotional conflict that Robert Smith and Ted Sherdeman have used for the core of their screenplay, and it is presented with neither style nor subtlety.

    July 31, 2020 | Full Review…

    Bosley Crowther

    New York Times

  • [St. Louis Blues' cast] brings to this story a simple, and at times a moving, sincerity.

    July 31, 2020 | Full Review…

    Times (UK) Staff

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  • What is lacking throughout St. Louis Blues is not the accurate story of W. C. Handy or the correct presentation of his music. What is really lacking is the spirit of W.C. Handy.

    July 31, 2020 | Full Review…

    Variety Staff

    Variety

  • Despite some heady melodramatics which are defused by sympathetic handling and excellent performances from Nat King Cole and Juano Hernandez, this is a pleasing film with a distinct feel for jazz.

    July 31, 2020 | Full Review…

    Tom Milne

    Time Out

  • The screenwriters' simplistic and melodramatic take on Handy's life nonetheless gains vitality and immediacy from the frank intimacy and the hushed urgency that the actors bring to their roles.

    July 31, 2020 | Full Review…

    Richard Brody

    New Yorker

  • Leaving the theatre, we reflected on an obviously Hollywood tampered story, crammed full of talents that overshadowed each other to climax in a hazy overcast jetted with sparks of laughter and rays of delightful --evening-saving, songs.

    December 9, 2020 | Full Review…

    Jesse L. DeVore

    New York Age
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