Boarding House Blues
In order to save their home, tenants of a boarding house put on a show.
From the archive
The owner of a theatrical boarding house is about to go bankrupt, so her tenants put on a show to raise the funds needed to keep the house. Of note mostly for as a document of actual vaudeville acts not long before vaudeville died out completely. Unfortunately, this copy was digitized poorly. The movie was shot flat (1.33:1), but this file seems to be forced to a 1.66:1 ratio, cropping off the top and bottom of the frame slightly, which is very noticeable during some of the acts recorded.
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Boarding House Blues (1948) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Josh Binney
- Starring
- Moms Mabley, Dusty Fletcher, Marcellus Wilson, Marie Cooke, Augustus Smith, John D. Lee Jr., Emory Richardson, Harold Cromer
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