Juke Joint (1947)/Reet, Petite And Gone (1947)

  
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First, the fast and funny musical "Juke Joint" focuses on a pair of vagabonds who try to repay their landlady's kindness by "rescuing" her daughter from some loose-living lads--getting themselves involved in a beauty contest along the way. Spencer Williams, July Jones, Inez Newell star. Next, in "Reet, Petite and Gone," a dying man's plans of leaving his bandleader son a fortune are complicated by a crooked lawyer. Songs include "Let the Good Times Roll" and "That Chick's Too Young to Fry." Louis Jordan, June Richmond, Milton Woods star. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions.
 
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