Kentucky Minstrels (film)

1934 film

Kentucky Minstrels

Directed by| John Baxter
Written by|

* Harry S. Pepper
* C. Denier Warren

Produced by| Julius Hagen
Cinematography| Sydney Blythe
Music by| W.L. Trytel

Production
company

Real Art Productions

Distributed by| Universal Pictures

Release date

* 1934 (1934)

Running time

| 84 minutes
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English

Kentucky Minstrels is a 1934 British musical film directed by John Baxter. It was made at Twickenham Studios as a quota quickie for release by Universal Pictures.[1] Scott and Whaley, the stars of the film, were an African American comedy duo, and the first black performers to take a leading role in a British film.[2] It also featured American actress Nina Mae McKinney. The show derived from the BBC radio programme, The Kentucky Minstrels, first broadcast in 1933, which was written and performed by the same team.[3]

Stephen Bourne, writing in The Independent, referred to the film's "brilliant musical finale".[4]

## Cast

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* Harry Scott as Pussy-Foot
* Eddie Whaley as Cuthbert
* C. Denier Warren as Danny Goldman
* April Vivian as Maggie
* Wilson Coleman as Ben
* Madge Brindley as Landlady
* Roddy Hughes as Town Clerk
* Norman Greene as Massa Johnson
* Terence Casey
* Edgar Driver
* Jack Gerrard
* Leslie Hatton and His White Coons as Themselves
* Nina Mae McKinney
* Harry S. Pepper and His Band as Themselves
* Leo Sheffield
* Debroy Somers
* Polly Ward
* Josie Woods as Dancer

## References

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1. ^ Wood p.82
2. ^ Stephen Bourne, Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television, Bloomsbury, 2005, pp.2-4, ISBN 0826478980
3. ^ "BBC's Kentucky Minstrels", Notable Kentucky African Americans Database. Retrieved 29 March 2021
4. ^ Bourne, Stephen (23 August 2008). "Josie Woods: Tap-dancing star of music hall". Independent. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

## Bibliography

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* Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

## External links

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* Kentucky Minstrels at IMDb

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Films directed by John Baxter

* Doss House (1933)
* Song of the Plough (1933)
* Say It with Flowers (1934)
* Music Hall (1934)
* Flood Tide (1934)
* Kentucky Minstrels (1934)
* Lest We Forget (1934)
* A Real Bloke (1935)
* The Small Man (1935)
* Jimmy Boy (1935)
* Birds of a Feather (1936)
* Men of Yesterday (1936)
* Hearts of Humanity (1936)
* The Song of the Road (1937)
* Talking Feet (1937)
* The Academy Decides (1937)
* Stepping Toes (1938)
* Secret Journey (1939)
* What Would You Do, Chums? (1939)
* Laugh It Off (1940)
* Old Mother Riley in Society (1940)
* Crook's Tour (1940)
* Love on the Dole (1941)
* Old Mother Riley in Business (1941)
* Old Mother Riley's Ghosts (1941)
* The Common Touch (1941)
* Let the People Sing (1942)
* We'll Smile Again (1942)
* Theatre Royal (1943)
* The Shipbuilders (1943)
* Dreaming (1945)
* Here Comes the Sun (1946)
* The Grand Escapade (1946)
* When You Come Home (1947)
* Fortune Lane (1947)
* Nothing Venture (1948)
* The Second Mate (1950)
* Judgment Deferred (1952)
* The Dragon of Pendragon Castle (1950)
* Ramsbottom Rides Again (1956)

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