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They Set Basin Street to Broadway Ablaze With Sizzling Songs and Hot Rhythm!
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Lena Horne
Selina Rogers
Bill Robinson
Bill Williamson
Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
Fats Waller
'Fats' Waller
Fayard Nicholas
Dancer
Harold Nicholas
Dancer
Ada Brown
Singer
Dooley Wilson
Gabe Tucker
Matthew Beard
Stagehand (uncredited)
Anise Boyer
Singer (uncredited)
Benny Carter
Trumpeter (uncredited)
Vivian Dandridge
Dancer (uncredited)
Suzette Harbin
Dancer / Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Coleman Hawkins
Saxophonist (uncredited)
Illinois Jacquet
Band Member (uncredited)
Jo Jones
Drummer (uncredited)
Jeni Le Gon
Dancer (uncredited)
F.E. Miller
Skit (uncredited)
Millie Monroe
Dancer (uncredited)
Florence O'Brien
Tucker's Gold-Digging Girlfriend (uncredited)
Nick Stewart
Cousin Jake (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman
Jim Europe (uncredited)