New Orleans (film)

New Orleans is a 1947 musical drama featuring Billie Holiday as a singing maid and Louis Armstrong as a bandleader supporting players Holiday and Armstrong perform together and portray a couple becoming romantically involved. During one song, Armstrongs character introduces the members of his band, a virtual Whos Who of classic jazz greats, including trombonist Kid Ory, drummer Zutty Singleton, clarinetist Barney Bigard, guitar player Bud Scott, bassist George Red Callender, pianist Charlie Beal, and pianist Meade Lux Lewis. Also performing in the film is cornetist Mutt Carey and bandleader Woody Herman. The music, however, takes a back seat to a rather conventional plot. The movie stars Arturo de Cordova and Dorothy Patrick, features Marjorie Lord, and was directed by Arthur Lubin.

An additional connection to Welles is that several members of the films Original New Orleans Ragtime Band Kid Ory, Mutt Carey, Bud Scott, Barney Bigard and Zutty Singleton had first been brought together in 1944, for his CBS Radio series, The Orson Welles Almanac.138139New Orleans is the only feature film made by singer Billie Holiday, and the last film in which writerproducer Herbert J. Biberman was involved before he was blacklisted. ........

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