St. Louis Blues (1958 film)

St. Louis Blues
	File:Poster of the 1958 movie St. Louis Blues.jpg Film poster
Directed by	Allen Reisner
Produced by	Robert Smith
Written by	Ted Sherdeman; Robert Smith
Starring	Nat King Cole; Eartha Kitt
Cinematography	Haskell B. Boggs
Edited by	Eda Warren
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> April 7, 1958; ; ; ; ;
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

St. Louis Blues is a 1958 American film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy. It starred jazz and blues greats Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, and Barney Bigard, as well as gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and actress Ruby Dee. The film's soundtrack used over ten of Handy's songs including the title song.

In conjunction with the film, Cole recorded an album of W. C. Handy compositions, arranged by Nelson Riddle, and Fitzgerald incorporated "St. Louis Blues" into her concert repertoire.

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