Pete Kelly's Blues (film)
Pete Kelly's Blues is a 1955 musical-crime film based on the 1951 original radio series.
It was directed by and starred Jack Webb in the title role of a bandleader and musician.
Janet Leigh is featured as party girl Ivy Conrad, and Edmond O'Brien as a gangster who applies pressure to Kelly.
Peggy Lee portrays alcoholic jazz singer Rose Hopkins (a performance for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role).
Ella Fitzgerald makes a cameo as singer Maggie Jackson (a character played by a white actress in the radio series).
Lee Marvin, Martin Milner, and Jayne Mansfield also make early career appearances.
Much of the dialogue was written by writers who wrote the radio series "Pat Novak for Hire" (1946-1949), and the radio version of "Pete Kelly's Blues" (1951), both of which Webb starred in for a time before creating "Dragnet".
Jack Webb
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Dick Cathcart
Charles Richard Cathcart( November 6, 1924 – November 8, 1993) was an American Dixieland trumpet player who was best known as a member of" The Lawrence Welk Show" in which he appeared from 1962 to 1968.
Cathcart was born in Michigan City, Indiana.
He was a trumpeter for the U.S. Army Air Force Band and a member of big bands led by Bob Crosby, Ben Pollack, and Ray Noble.
After World War II, he moved to Los Angeles.
His friend Jack Webb was playing the part of trumpeter Pete Kelly in the movie" Pete Kelly's Blues" and told Cathcart he should supply the music.
The band from the movie stayed together in the 1950s for performances and recordings under the name Pete Kelly's Big Seven.
Cathcart also supplied music for the TV show" Dragnet", which starred Jack Webb as Joe Friday.
He spent much of his career as a musician on" The Lawrence Welk Show".
On the Welk show, he met Peggy Lennon, a singer with the Lennon Sisters, and the two married.

Question: Which film has the director born first, Pete Kelly'S Blues (Film) or Duel Personalities?
Answer: Duel Personalities