Juke Joint

The Joint is Jumpin'! / The Jive is Jivvin'! / The Jam is Jammin'! / Everybody's High in the Happy Slap-Happy Holiday Family!

Juke Joint — Plot

Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.

• Release date
• January 1, 1947
• Runtime
• 68 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama
• Director
• Spencer Williams

Juke Joint — Cast

Spencer Williams Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney

J

July Jones 'Cornbread' Green

I

Inez Newell Louella 'Mama Lou' Holiday

L

Leonard Duncan Samuel 'Papa Sam' Holiday

D

Dauphine Moore Barbara 'Honey Dew' Holiday

K

Katherine Moore Florida Holiday

T

Tilford Patterson Jefferson Lee

A

Albert Smith 'High Life' Harris