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Moon Over Harlem
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Wikipedia article
'Moon Over Harlem' is a 1939 American race film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
Plot summary
A gangster, Dollar Bill Richards, seduces a wealthy widow, Minnie, to get his hands on her money.
Cast
*Bud Harris as Dollar Bill
*Cora Green as Minnie
*Izinetta Wilcox as Sue
*Earl Gough as Bob
*Zerita Steptean as Jackie
*Petrina Moore as Alice
*Daphne Fray as Pat
*Mercedes Gilbert as Jackie's mother
*Frances Harrod as Maud
*Alec Lovejoy as Fats
*Walter Richardson as Brother Hornsby
*Slim Thompson as Long-Boy
*Freddie Robinson as Half-Pint
*John Bunn as Wallstreet
*Marieluise Bechet as Nina Mae Brown
*Archie Cross as A Boy from Newark
*William Woodward as A Boy from Newark
*John Fortune as Jamaica
*Audrey Talbird as Connie
*Marie Young as Jean
*Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew as Themselves
*Sidney Bechet as Himself - Clarinetist
Soundtrack
*"My Hope Chest of Dreams" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
*Zerita Steptean - "St. Louis Blues" (1914) (Music and lyrics by W.C. Handy)
*Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew and sung by Izinetta Wilcox and chorus - "Teach Me How to Sing Again" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
*Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew - "Save Some of Those Roses for Me" (published title) as "Save Me Some of Those Kisses" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
*Mourners at the funeral - "One More River to Cross" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
*"Moon Over Harlem" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
*"Stand Together Children" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
*"Lullaby" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
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