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In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent St. Louis BluesA young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized soun...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Jazz SingerIn San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Old San FranciscoDuke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it mea...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Black and TanRodrigo, an impoverished Italian nobleman takes a job with a New York antique dealer he met overseas. Swearing off women, Rodrigo focuses on his job. But complications arise when he falls in love with...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent CobraElizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must decide whether to give everything up to follow her...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The CircleAn Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Little Old New YorkJuan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. H...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Blood and SandTasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russia...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Red DanceA young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Love of Sunya