The Duke Is Tops (1938)

Directed by

William Nolte, Ralph Cooper

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 03m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A musical producer and a singer try to make it big in show business. The story follows their professional and romantic ups and downs.

energeticupbeatlivelyretrolightheartednostalgicrhythmicshowy

What happens

The Duke Is Tops is a 1938 American musical film released by Million Dollar Productions and directed by William Nolte. The film was later released in 1944 under the title The Bronze Venus. It features top-billed Lena Horne in her film debut, along with Ralph Cooper. The film was one of the low-budget musical film "race movies" made in the 1930s and 1940s for the African-American market. The casts and production teams of these films were almost all black, and the music reflected current tastes in jazz and rhythm and blues. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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