Beale Street Mama (1946)
Wives, lock up your husbands! Husbands, run for your lives!
60 min
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.
- Release date
- January 1, 1946
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- July Jones as July Jones
- Spencer Williams as Bad News Johnson
- Rosalie Larrimore as Mathilda Mae Grimes
- Howard Galloway as Pretty Boy Brown
- John Hemmings as Chief of Police
- Montgne McCormy as Hazel Smith
- Mary Louise Stevens as Rosie Scott
- George T. Sutton as Detective
- Allen and Allen as Entertainers
- Joyce McElrath as Entertainer
Crew
- Spencer Williams · Director
- Bert Goldberg · Producer