New Orleans (1947) - (Movie Clip) More Than I Miss New Orleans

New Orleans (1947) -- (Movie Clip) West End Blues

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.

New Orleans (1947) — (Movie Clip) — (Do You Know What It Means To Miss) New Orleans

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.