Moon Over Harlem
Moon Over Harlem is a 1939 American race film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
Plot summary
A gangster, Dollar Bill Richards, seduces a wealthy widow, Minnie, to get his hands on her money.Cast
- Bud Harris as Dollar Bill
- Cora Green as Minnie
- Izinetta Wilcox as Sue
- Earl Gough as Bob
- Zerita Stepteau as Jackie
- Petrina Moore as Alice
- Daphne Fray as Pat
- Mercedes Gilbert as Jackie's mother
- Frances Harrod as Maud
- Alec Lovejoy as Fats
- Walter Richardson as Brother Hornsby
- Slim Thompson as Long-Boy
- Freddie Robinson as Half-Pint
- John Bunn as Wallstreet
- Marieluise Bechet as Nina Mae Brown
- Archie Cross as A Boy from Newark
- William Woodward as A Boy from Newark
- John Fortune as Jamaica
- Audrey Talbird as Connie
- Marie Young as Jean
- Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew as Themselves
- Sidney Bechet as himself - Clarinetist
Soundtrack
- "My Hope Chest of Dreams"
- Zerita Stepteau - "St. Louis Blues"
- Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew and sung by Izinetta Wilcox and chorus - "Teach Me How to Sing Again"
- Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew - "Save Some of Those Roses for Me" as "Save Me Some of Those Kisses"
- Mourners at the funeral - "One More River to Cross"
- "Moon Over Harlem"
- "Stand Together Children"
- "Lullaby"