<I>Boy! What A Girl</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1947
name: label: Directed by
content: Arthur H. Leonard, American, 1904 - 1956
label: Written by
content: Vincent Andrew Valentini, American, 1895 - 1948
label: Produced by
content: Arthur H. Leonard, American, 1904 - 1956
label: Produced by
content: Jack Goldberg, ca. 1889 - 1959
label: Edited by
content: Jack Kemp
label: Subject of
content: Tim Moore, American, 1887 - 1958
label: Subject of
content: Slam Stewart, American, 1914 - 1987
label: Subject of
content: Sidney Catlett, American, 1910 - 1951
label: Subject of
content: Elwood Smith, American, 1913 - 1992
label: Subject of
content: Duke Williams
label: Subject of
content: Alan Jackson
label: Subject of
content: Sheila Guyse, American, 1925 - 2013
label: Subject of
content: Betti Mays, American, 1923 - 2014
label: Subject of
content: Sybil Lewis, American, 1919 - 1988
label: Subject of
content: Warren Patterson
label: Subject of
content: Milton Wood
label: Composed by
content: Mary Lou Williams, American, 1910 - 1981
label: Composed by
content: Bishop Walter McCollough, American, 1915 - 1991
notes: label: Description
content: A 16mm release print of the feature film Boy! What A Girl!. It consists of two reels of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film with variable-area optical sound. The first scene opens with a street view of New York City. At one point, a street sign at the intersection of 138th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue comes into focus on the screen. The footage then quickly jumps to a man playing a double base as four other individuals listen. At the end of his performance, Bumpsie (Tim Moore), who is one of the four and wears a long dress, falls to the floor and the other listeners laugh. The rest of the film follows two musical producers, Jim Walton (Elwood Smith) and Harry Diggs (Duke Williams), who struggle to find investors to finance their latest show. Mr. Cummings (Alan Jackson), the father of Jim Walton’s love interest, agrees to invest in their enterprise on one condition: the two producers must convince a Parisian impresario, Madame Deborah (Sybil Lewis), to finance the film as well. The producers convince Bumpsie to pose as Madame Deborah. Everything goes as planned, until the real Madame Deborah shows up.
place: label: Place depicted
content: New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Place filmed
content: New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Comedy
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Jazz (Music)
label: Topic
content: Race films
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Randall and Sam Nieman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.167.1.1ab
objectType: label: Type
content: sound films
label: Type
content: black-and-white films (visual works)
label: Type
content: release prints (motion pictures)
label: Type
content: feature films
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: acetate film
label: Dimensions
content: Duration: 1 hr., 9 min., 53 sec.
label: Dimensions
content: Physical extent (film): 1200 ft
label: Dimensions
content: Physical extent (film): 1200 ft