"M-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer!" 31 August 1951 Drama, Crime, Music 85 mins
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.
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Mickey Rooney as Stanley Maxton
Sally Forrest as Jane Tafford
William Demarest as Fluff
James Craig as Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson
Kay Brown as Edna
Louis Armstrong as Himself
Myrna Dell as Paulette Ardrey
Vic Damone as Himself
Art Lewis as Sam
Tommy Rettig as Artie Ardrey
Tom Powers as Lt. Detective Bonnabel
Jonathan Cott as Behr
Jacqueline Fontaine as Frieda
Monica Lewis as Herself
Jack Teagarden as Himself
Earl Hines as Himself
László Kardos Director
A. Arnold Gillespie Special Effects
Warren Newcombe Special Effects
Helen Rose Costume Designer
Sydney Guilaroff Hair Designer
William Tuttle Makeup Designer
Cedric Gibbons Art Direction
Leonid Vasian Art Direction
Douglas Shearer Recording Supervision
Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration
Alfred E. Spencer Set Decoration
Nick Castle Choreographer
Allen Rivkin Writer
Joe Pasternak Producer
Robert Surtees Director of Photography
Albert Akst Editor
United States 31 August 1951
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