Moon Over Harlem is a 1939 American race film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
Plot summary A gangster, Dollar Bill Richards, seduces a wealthy widow, Minnie, to get his hands on her money.
Cast Bud Harris as Dollar Bill Cora Green as Minnie Izinetta Wilcox as Sue Earl Gough as Bob Zerita Stepteau as Jackie Petrina Moore as Alice Daphne Fray as Pat Mercedes Gilbert as Jackie's mother Frances Harrod as Maud Alec Lovejoy as Fats Walter Richardson as Brother Hornsby Slim Thompson as Long-Boy Freddie Robinson as Half-Pint John Bunn as Wallstreet Marieluise Bechet as Nina Mae Brown Archie Cross as A Boy from Newark William Woodward as A Boy from Newark John Fortune as Jamaica Audrey Talbird as Connie Marie Young as Jean Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew as Themselves Sidney Bechet as himself - Clarinetist
Soundtrack "My Hope Chest of Dreams" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood) Zerita Stepteau - "St. Louis Blues" (1914) (Music and lyrics by W.C. Handy) Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew and sung by Izinetta Wilcox and chorus - "Teach Me How to Sing Again" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood) Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew - "Save Some of Those Roses for Me" (published title) as "Save Me Some of Those Kisses" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood) Mourners at the funeral - "One More River to Cross" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood) "Moon Over Harlem" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood) "Stand Together Children" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood) "Lullaby" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
External links
Moon Over Harlem (1939) at The Department of Afro American Research, Arts, and Culture's Archive (DAARAC)