Doing The Uptown Low Down (1933)

Here's a clip from Broadway Through A Keyhole. Apart from Frances Williams and dancers we get to see Texas Guinan who died just three days after the movie opened in november 1933.
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[vespoligirl77]

Thank you so much for posting this clip! i am doing a project on texas and I have to host a speakeasy.. this helps alot!!

do u know where i could find some of her full films?

[stjn00]

Sorry, the few that has survived is not available on DVD.

[mic33george]

Isnt this the film Al Jolson got angry about and hit someone,due to the strong similarity between the plot and Ruby Keelers life?Do you have the "you were the girl on the scooter" number from the film?

[stjn00]

Oh Yes, Jolson thought it was a "smashing" movie! :)

[careygordon]

where can I get moe movies of the speakeasies?careygordon

[ssarahlabadinii]

@bayonnetenor my great grandpa!!!! cool!...right?

[bayonnetenor]

Who is the dancer at 2:50?

[JCJasion]

@FarnhazenBrep - Too bad Tex drank that bad WATER ( ironic that it wasn't bad hootch! ) in late 1933. I think she would have remained a presence and influence in '30's and '40's films.

[FarnhazenBrep]

@JCJasion

Oh, yes. Thank goodness we have some of these people on film. A notorius real-life >female< speakeasy owner living life her way in the 1920s and 30s.

F Brep

[FarnhazenBrep]

@skajmi

I thought so, too, when I first watched this. But it's Constance Cummings.

[rgsfield]

Inncorrect comment below that Lucille Ball and Ann Sothern were in the chorus of this picture; Ann was a BIG STAR in her own films by 1933 and Lucille Ball worked for another studio at that time.