New Orleans

Introduction and comments following New Orleans, 1947, with Jamaal Finkley and Carla Renata from the African American Film Critics Association.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces New Orleans, 1947.

Not a little bit mind-bending, Billie Holiday is well composed as an actress, playing the maid Endie, with Dorothy Patrick the enthused daughter of her employer, before her first song in her only movie, a standard by Louis Alter and Eddie DeLange, with Louis Armstrong her boyfriend in the band, in the independent jazz showcase from producers Herbert Biberman and Jules Levey, New Orleans, 1947.

Society matron Mrs. Smith (Irene Rich) greeting daughter Miralee (Dorothy Patrick) who has the sense to note it's Billie Holliday herself (!!!), playing maid "Endie," singing More Than I Miss New Orleans, early in New Orleans, 1947.

Louis Armstrong's famous fanfare to West End Blues first in the background, then in person, playing a character using his own name, conversing with protagonist Nick (Arturo de Cordova), opening New Orleans, 1947.