New Orleans" Starring Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday | Classic Film Feature

[@kurtzwar729]

Pops and his band. Louis Armstrong is the greatest and most important musician in American history. Blues, Jazz and Louis Armstrong. Got you covered. Thanks Pops.

[@KathyWright-o2t]

Billie Holiday was beautiful in this film!! Her voice is a dream. Such an icon gone too soon. Love you Lady Day!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lizlocher3612]

The Quintessential Billie Holiday who has.been one of my idols that I patterned my singing style off of since I was 15 yrs old in Detroit, Michigan in 1972, when I used to sing the blues deckef out in my evening gowns, long gloves, feather boas n satin high heels,n as a white girl, though you might think I wasnt accepted, you would be WRONG, because I was singing the songs n stylings of Billie Holiday!!!! I can NOT exclaim how absolutely FABULOUS it is this Sunday evening in July,2024, at 67 yrs old, to be privileged enough to watch this classic Hollywood movie featuring the inimitable Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong n Woody Herman n their bands!!! Thank you for walking me down memory boulevard and for telling the Storyville story of the origins if JASS!!! YEAH!!!

[@deborahhidalgo-knapp1953]

08/24/2024 is there isn't any place I'd rather be than to be sitting on my sofa with my Sweetie watching this fine film. New Orleans is where the BLUES were born. Gotta ❤ it. Peace be with you always. from 🇨🇱 with ❤

[@jacklynazure689]

Such a treat to see this film with two Jazz and Blues greats. Tfs🤗

[@pbenson56fran]

My my I got a warm feeling 3/4 ways into the film.....Seeing Billie Holiday and Louie act...I felt so good that the mother realized her daughter loved good music...Today people love music of all kinds, some do..... I love opera because I would watch it during the 60s on PBS or in movies on TV....Also, my choral director had us singing Opera....I did not know about Jazz by its name. But I've been listening to it all my life by watching musicals....Artie Shaw story.... Benny Goodman story...movies that had the Williams Brothers dancing by what Jazz....I really loved this musical it was good. I was swaying to the music.....Thank you BlackTree TV

[@blacktreemedia]

You are very much welcome.

[@pbenson56fran]

@@blacktreemedia You are introducing to movies I did not see as a child... Are you going to play Summertime featuring Lena Horne and I think the guy that play as Jack Benny's housekeeper? It's a good good movie ... Sorry you make not know Jack Benny or the Black actor this was during the black n White era, tv. Rabbit ears stuff....

[@blacktreemedia]

I will look for it. Depends on licensing. I think this weekend we will have Imitation of Life, but we sometimes do double features

[@pbenson56fran]

@@blacktreemedia I can't watch Imitation of Life......That movie made me so mad when I was a girl.......That girl treated her mother so bad....Then at the end crying making a scene acting like a nut....But thank you if you can. If you can't thank you for trying.....Have a great evening.....

[@evonza4858]

I was touched knowing they're in the film from beginning to end🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥰💚❤️💛💜💙

[@denisedecarlo9311]

Such a joy to see Louis and Billie who light up the screen with their music...thank you

[@tonyadangerfield8640]

Lovely Lovely Movie Nice To See And Listen To A Good Movie On A Saturday Morning 😊❤ Thank You For This!!

[@BurningSky444]

Wow… Lovely story… interesting how the music evolved 🎶🎵🎶

[@blacktreemedia]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@deborahhidalgo-knapp1953]

"Blues music talks from the ❤, it doesn't lie".

[@janinetheo]

Loved seeing and hearing Billie Holiday. What a phenomenal talent.

[@nasa3675]

Wow! that was great. I'm 68 years old. I really enjoyed this. I lived 4 blocks from Storyville. So surreal. I living in Seattle since 1988 . I do know what it means to miss New Orleans. Thank you Black Tree TV.

[@maceoleonthomas1483]

First of all, thank you for posting this movie. I have seen excerpts from "New Orleans." Today, I watched the entire movie. Excellent movie! Good storyline. Good acting. Excellent replication of New Orleans via set design (inside and outside). Also, the cinematic treatment of the movie gives you the illusion of it actually taking place in the 1917, instead of the year the film was made, 1947. The music was phenomenal! Louis, Billie, Barney, Zutty and the rest of Pops orchestra were fabulous! Shelley Winters? Is this the same Shelley Winters of the 1960's? If so, she was really good! So was Woodie Herman and his orchestra! The shift from New Orleans to Chicago was smooth and distinctive in the depiction of the two cities. I was expecting a different ending that included the great Louis Daniel Armstrong and the great Billie Holiday. It reflected what Shelley's character wanted. That is to do opera and Jazz. To show that they were both epic music genres! Yet, it would have been a phenomenal movie if Louis, Billie and the other African American musicians were added. Once again, thank you for sharing this! 💖

[@IamP3ngu1n]

I've never heard of the movie until now...all those great musicians and Cast. One actor that caught my attention in particular was "Mokey" (Bill Walker). Couldn't remember which movie(s) I've seen him in...had to do a Goggle Search. Bill Walker, "Bright Road". A charming little movie starring Harry Bellefonte, and Dorothy Dandridge. Thanks for the post ! ❤

[@rochellewarren5008]

💜💥Epic film~Thank you⭐️

[@mareerogers364]

Nice clean cut. sound is 🥰 cast superb 👌

[@salemfathi2532]

great movie, the greats together in the same movie, a delight, the "white" girl was not bad at all,

[@mariahahn-silva7132]

Memories of my childhood and teen years: Arturo de Cordova, the fine Mexican actor and heartthrob (thanks to my mother), Lady Day, Pops (whose lovely house is now The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens), Shelley Winters, Marjorie Lord... I'm sighing...

[@deborahmccauley401]

Wow, 🍿another great classic 🍽️🍸📽️🎬❤

[@cherylmingo5206]

AMAZING I LOOK FOR GOLDEN GEMS LIKE THIS ❤ THANK YOU FOR THIS

[@flickrennels]

Sweet 🎶

[@nataliaarguello6199]

What a wondergulbfilm

[@MaliV.Williams]

"It's MINE ALREADY"...(If we Only KNEW!!)

[@fisunozben6087]

Enjoy every minute of it Specially dear Billie Holiday♥️

[@stephaniemontero1288]

Beautiful movie

[@rochellewarren5008]

💜💥

[@sharinaross1865]

Riveting performance

[@montauk6]

7:08 - "I'm HAPPY to say... NEVER!" Yeah right, you know what Granny would've been HAPPY to say.

[@browngoldthread1239]

6:53 in Maryland there would be a price on their head. Humph..,.🎉

[@dancefeast]

1947 / Arturo de Córdova / Dorothy Patrick

[@MaliV.Williams]

The ANNOYANCE was Just as Rampant THEN!!

[@rochellewarren5008]

💜😎

[@giuliettamassina7787]

Billie Holiday plays a maid in this. Do we remember any of the main characters?

[@AlexPangmanofficial]

Is it just me, or is Maryland my Maryland the same as O Tannenbaum in places?!?

[@patoni860]

It was called the tenderloin and it was never called storyville to after they tore it down and people gave it that name to describe it afterwards 1917... What happened is the people that played in the tenderloin now had to find jobs and they started playing with the people that lived uptown, Papa Celestine and them folks... They never play with them before

[@blacktreemedia]

The Tenderloin, where was that located in the city geographic wise?

[@nick6779]

The great Billie Holliday made to play a role reserved for the secondary featured actors in this or any motion picture, relegated to play a nothing more than a maid role -- forever shameful, how the time she lived allowed the bigoted racists running Hollywood back then to desecrate such a world treasure - It's all we have left honoring such a giant so alas,we will take all the little we were allowed to see of this great giant

[@harpereion8702]

For the most part that's the way it was until 1949 but thanks to You Tube, I can zip though the film and just watch her scenes. Ethel Water starred in the movie "Cabin in the Sky" 1943 but in the film 1942 Cairo she played Jeanette MacDonald's maid. The once exception was the 1942 film "In this our Life ". In that film actor Ernest Anderson portrays Parry Clay, a young man who plans to study law and works in a law office. In 1949 actor James Edwards starred in "Home of the Brave" portraying Private Peter Moss an engineer topography specialist in the army. The next year Sidney Poitier made his screen debut in "No way Out" portraying a doctor. Husband and wife Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee were also in the cast. Harry Belafonte made his screen debut in "Bright Road" Which starred Dorothy Dandridge. She became the 1st African American Oscar nominee in a lead actor role, and the 1st to sign a contract with a major studio 20th Century Fox for star role only for a lucrative salary per film.

[@MarciaMatthews]

I miss New Orleans! This movie must have been pre-code. Themes of racism and hypocrisy combined with black and white musicians in the sane band, and the crossover of jazz with classical. Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman.

[@MarciaMatthews]

Arturo deCordova and Dorothy Patrick.

[@MarciaMatthews]

And Richard Hageman.

[@MarciaMatthews]

The diaspora after Storyville was closed down reminded me of Katrina. 😭

[@marionlove100]

Im sorry but it doesn't even look right with Billie Holiday playing a maid..Such a legend 💯🥰

[@jessgarc-sd6oh]

Nice movie but in reality it did not turn out that way

[@texvor6949]

This isnt a black film. You could have easily gotten a black film with billie holiday in it that had a black cast. The days of sitting thru a stupid film waiting for the only black person to appear are over. Do better.

[@harpereion8702]

@suzannefarrington4143 I only know about this film. What were the other three? She appeared in Symphony in Black with Duke Ellington at age 19, but that was a nine-minute short not a full movie.