Beale Street Mama
DirectorSpencer Williams
“Wives, lock up your husbands! Husbands, run for your lives!”
The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly acquired wealth to go on a spending spree, with the hope of getting back at an old girlfriend who dumped him for another man. However, complications arise when it is discovered the money is counterfeit.
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Cast
July Jones
July Jones
Spencer Williams
Bad News Johnson
Rosalie Larrimore
Mathilda Mae Grimes
Howard Galloway
Pretty Boy Brown
J.W. (John) Hemmings
Chief of Police
Montgne McCormy
Hazel Smith
Mary Louise Stevens
Rosie Scott
George T. Sutton
Detective
Allen and Allen
Entertainers
Joyce McElrath
Entertainer
Don Albert
Himself, Band Leader
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