Hollywood and Harlem
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
label: Collection Collector
content: Smith, Ernie
label: Collection Performer
content: Webster, Ben
label: Collection Performer
content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
label: Collection Performer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Performer
content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
label: Collection Performer
content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
label: Collection Performer
content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-
label: Collection Performer
content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
label: Collection Performer
content: Davis, Miles
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Motion picture film
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 491.69-1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: 1. Hollywood and Harlem (n Ernie Smith compilation reel); black and white, 975 feet; features clips from Hollywood movies depicting Harlem nightlife.

Performer(s): Ethel Waters, Jimmy Lunceford and His Orchestra, Willie Smith, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Orchestra, The Three Tenors, others unidentified

Song Title(s): "Jail House Blues", 1942, unidentified female vocalist; "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home", unidentified female vocalist; Unidentified vocals by Waters; "Am I Blue?", vocals by Waters, probably from Rufus Jones for President, 1933; "Underneath a Harlem Moon", vocals by Waters, from Rufus Jones for President, 1933; "Rhythm is Our Business", vocals by Smith, Jimmy Lunceford and His Orchestra; "God Bless the Child", vocals by Holiday, Count Basie and His Orchestra; "Fine and Mellow", vocals by Holiday and The Three Tenors

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