Juke Joint

1947 · ⭐ 5 · Votes: 2

“The Joint is Jumpin'! / The Jive is Jivvin'! / The Jam is Jammin'! / Everybody's High in the Happy Slap-Happy Holiday Family!”

Bad News Johnson a con artist from Memphis Tennessee arrives in Dallas Texas accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.