Movies: Jules Bledsoe

  • 1929
    Show Boat

    Show Boat (1929)

    Show Boat

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    This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband...

    Show Boat
  • 1942
    Drums of the Congo

    Drums of the Congo (1942)

    Drums of the Congo

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    A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle....

    Drums of the Congo
  • 1929
    Old Man Trouble

    Old Man Trouble (1929)

    Old Man Trouble

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    The Columbia-Victor Gems series was Columbia’s answer to Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone shorts, often featuring vaudevillians or musical performers in a short sketch or musical number. Old Man Trouble stars concert singer Jules Bledsoe, best-known for creat...

    Old Man Trouble
  • 1930
    Dear Old Southland

    Dear Old Southland (1930)

    Dear Old Southland

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    A rare early forerunner of the music video, in which bass-baritone Jules Bledsoe is seen singing "Dear Old Southland", a song with new lyrics, but melody adapted from the famous spiritual "Deep River"....

    Dear Old Southland