Beale Street Mama

Wives, lock up your husbands! Husbands, run for your lives!

Beale Street Mama — Plot

A Memphis street sweeper comes upon a large parcel of money, which he uses to embark on a spending spree in hopes of getting back at an old girlfriend who dumped him for another. However, complications arise when it's discovered the money is counterfeit.

• Release date
• January 1, 1946
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Spencer Williams

Beale Street Mama — Cast

J

July Jones July Jones Spencer Williams Bad News Johnson

R

Rosalie Larrimore Mathilda Mae Grimes

H

Howard Galloway Pretty Boy Brown

J

J.W. Hemmings Chief of Police

M

Montgne McCormy Hazel Smith

M

Mary Louise Stevens Rosie Scott

G

George T. Sutton Detective