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Minstrel Man

(Minstrel Man)
5.5/ 10
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Original Title : Minstrel Man
Time : 70 Min
Genre : Music
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 1944
Director : Joseph H. Lewis, Edgar G. Ulmer
Writer : Irwin Franklyn, Pierre Gendron, Martin Mooney, Raymond L. Schrock
Producer : Leon Fromkess
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English
About : Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boy's wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show, leaving the baby to be raised by his showbiz pals Mae and Lasses White (Gladys George, Roscoe Karns). The kid grows up to be an attractive young woman named Caroline (Judy Clark), who follows in her dad's footsteps by billing herself as-that's right-Dixie Girl Johnson. This leads to a tearful reunion between Caroline and the father she'd long assumed to be dead. If Minstrel Man seems at times to be a dress rehearsal for Columbia's The Jolson Story (1946), it shouldn't surprising: the PRC film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Jolson Story's musical highlights.

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