Blues in the Night (1941)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Priscilla Lane	...	Ginger 'Character' Powell
	Betty Field	...	Kay Grant
	Richard Whorf	...	Jigger Pine
	Lloyd Nolan	...	Del Davis
	Jack Carson	...	Leo Powell
	Wallace Ford	...	Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
	Elia Kazan	...	Nickie Haroyen
	Peter Whitney	...	Pete Bossett
	Billy Halop	...	Peppi
	Howard Da Silva	...	Sam Paryas
	Joyce Compton	...	Blonde dancing with drunk
	Herbert Heywood	...	Brakeman
	George Lloyd	...	Joe (St. Louis cafe owner)
	Charles C. Wilson	...	Barney (as Charles Wilson)
	Matt McHugh	...	Drunk

Storyline

"Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powelll, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play 'blues' music. The dedication isn't paying off in money and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend a gangster named Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former 'real-good friend' of Davis. But when Powell learns that 'Character' is about to have a baby, he returns to her. "Jigger" tries to make Kay the band's singer and, when this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing to show for him except a nervous breakdown.Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him and plans to take back up with "Jigger"... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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