Overview
A young Southern college student falls for the charms of a female nightclub owner while on summer break in Chicago - and soon enough meets her club co-owner boyfriend and his gangster pals.
Fun facts
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Filming locations
Filmed in North Bergen
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Setting
Set in Chicago
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Edna Mae BakerStory
- Oscar MicheauxWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 1, 1937
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
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In the United States
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Cast
Bee FreemanDinah Jackson
Sol JohnsonPaul Bronson
'Slick' ChesterLeRoy Giles
Larry SeymourTim Sharkey
Oscar PolkSam Brown
Ethel MosesEvelyn Martin
Amanda RandolphThe Rooming House Maid
Lorenzo TuckerDetective Sergeant- Willie KewSing Lee
- Clara Bell Powell
Anna Mae FritzSam's mother [uncredited]- Bernice Gray
- Eddie Matthews
- Mitchell Modeste
- StringbeanComic Tap Dancer
- The Pope SistersDuet Singers
- Raymond CollinsRope Dancer
- Dotty SaulterClub SInger ("That Man Of Mine")
- The Girls from Nagasaki(unconfirmed)
- The Six Sizzlers(unconfirmed)
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