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Director
  
Arthur Lubin

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Music, Romance

Running time
  
1h 30m

Language
  
English

New Orleans (film) movie poster

Release date
  
April 18, 1947 (1947-04-18)

Writer
  
Elliot Paul (screenplay), Dick Irving Hyland (screenplay), Elliot Paul (from an original story by), Herbert J. Biberman (from an original story by)

Songs
  
Flee as a Bird / When the Saints Go Marching In

Cast
  
Arturo de Córdova
(Nick Duquesne (as Arturo De Cordova)),
Dorothy Patrick
(Miralee Smith),
Marjorie Lord
(Grace Voiselle),
Irene Rich
(Mrs. Rutledge Smith)

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New Orleans is a 1947 American musical romance film 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, Armstrong's character introduces the members of his band, a virtual Who's 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.

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Production

New Orleans has its origins in an abandoned component of an unfinished RKO Pictures feature film by Orson Welles — "The Story of Jazz" segment of It's All True. A history of jazz alternatively titled "Jam Session", the section of the film was being written by Elliot Paul in 1941 under contract to Welles. The story of Louis Armstrong was to have been central to that segment of It's All True.

An additional connection to Welles is that several members of the film's 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.

New Orleans is the only feature film made by singer Billie Holiday, and the last film in which writer-producer Herbert J. Biberman was involved before he was blacklisted.

Cast

The credits for New Orleans are detailed at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.

Home media

  • 2000: Kino Lorber Home Video, Region 1 DVD, April 25, 2000
  • Soundtrack

    Although most of the music created for New Orleans was truncated in the film's release version, a soundtrack issued in 1983 made the full versions of the songs available, with additional music cut from the final release. Songs include "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?"

    References

    New Orleans (film) Wikipedia
    New Orleans (film) IMDb New Orleans (film) themoviedb.org