St. Louis Blues (1929), one was a two-reel short written by William C. Handy and Kenneth W. Adams one of the first films to talk about an all-black cast. It contains a number of important actors and musicians from Harlem Renaissance and contains unique photographs of the singer Bessie Smith. The plot of the film, which as "serious life photo Negro", is loosely based on the popular hit "Saint Louis Blues" (1914) is based almost. Although the film is mainly for his outstanding interpretation of the classic song titles to introduce Smith, St. Louis Blues are still an important event in the history of African-American theater.Recommended by mobile phone, white film's director Dudley Murphy, such as the female lead Bessie Smith, then 35 years old, what vaudeville blues singer and recording star was in Columbia was cast. In 1925, with the last version of the "Saint Louis Blues" studio Columbia in New York, Louis Armstrong recorded the cornet. The cast film also showed a dancer Jimmy Mordecai and actress Isabel Washington. John Rosamond Johnson helped organize Handy, choral music and the interprets forty twomember Hall Johnson Choir Smith, accompanied by a picture. Stride pianist James P. Johnson, and many of the former members of Fletcher Henderson orchestra on the big screen with the film Jazz Band.
St. Louis Blues was produced by RCA Photo-Ton and fired a low budget in June 1929 Gramercy Studio in Astoria, Long Iceland. The film was released 17 minutes later, a short in the same year as the two rollers before the feature attractions shows and has appeared in 1932. Diversity Checking the St. Louis Blues Black theater movie as "sharp described the excitement and action packed Aframerican domestic and color." Thin plot, Memphis, and a woman named Bessie restless (Smith Date), a beautiful, lovers of the crap-shooting, Jimmy (Mordechai), right, and which has been physically demonstrated for money. Although Bessie support him financially, Jimmy has been romantically involved with a strange woman (Washington). Violent confrontation began when Bessie this woman sank after the shooting and Jimmy in his hotel room Bessie rent.
Jimmy then the bowlers and deserts Bessie, despite tearful accusations. The last scene of the film Bessie worries Bootleg liquor drowned in a bar full of smoke on Beale Street, and, accompanied by a choir and jazz orchestra, the blame game, "Saint Louis Blues" to appreciate the number of patrons. Jimmy will embrace Bessie, and quietly steal a roll of bills Bessie had put the Garter, when they dance together. The film ends with Bessie fell into a deep depression after Jimmy left a permanent basis. After the release, Saint Louis Blues with the controversial film historians, researchers and the Blues, although stronger presence of Smith and electrifying screen performance praised the "Saint Louis Blues". Thomas Cripps (1977) describes considered to be "the best movie Negro live up to the" claimed but Donald Bogle (1973), the film "At this stage, it was too much white leader." Angela Davis (1998) is a film criticized not only because it "contains a wealth of racist and sexist stereotypes "but because" apparently ignored the spirit of the blues women, so that women victims without recourse. "Despite the criticism, remains an important example of an African-American film and one that highlights the music and the St. Louis Blues acting talents of a number of prominent artists in the Harlem Renaissance.
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