Jail House Blues

Jail House Blues is a motion picture released by Columbia Pictures in 1929.

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Motion picture - Columbia Pictures - 1929

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The musical short featuring Mamie Smith, who had long been a popular Blues singer on Okeh Records.

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Musical - Mamie Smith - Blues - Okeh Records

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Two songs were prerecorded by Victor Records, "JAILHOUSE BLUES" and "YOU CAN'T DO IT!" as custom recordings, evidently used for synch purposes.

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There are no known complete prints of the movie, but short segments turn up in various documentaries on African-American entertainment culture, one entire

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sequence of Mamie Smith singing JAIL HOUSE BLUES is intact.

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There are short vaudeville, broad humor dialogue and gag scenes, lots of "bug-eyed" mugging and fist-clinching by Mamie Smith.

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Synopsis: Mamie is missing her man, and finds him in jail. She pleads through her singing for his release.

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