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Pete Kelly's Blues

6.1 95 mins Crime   Drama   Music   1955
Mark VII Ltd.  
Director(s): Jack Webb

Release Date: 31 Sun, Jul 1955

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

Casts of Pete Kelly's Blues

Jack Webb

as Pete Kelly

Janet Leigh

as Ivy Conrad

Edmond O'Brien

as Fran McCarg

Peggy Lee

as Rose Hopkins

Andy Devine

as George Tenell

Lee Marvin

as Al Gannaway

Ella Fitzgerald

as Maggie Jackson

Martin Milner

as Joey Firestone

Than Wyenn

as Rudy Shulak

Herbert Ellis

as Bedido

John Dennis

as Guy Bettenhouser

Jayne Mansfield

as Cigarette Girl

Mort Marshall

as Cootie Jacobs

Moe Schneider

as Trombonist (Big 7)

George Van Eps

as Guitarist (Big 7)

Ray Sherman

as Pianist (Big 7)

Dick Cathcart

as Trumpet Player / Webb's Cornet Double

Matty Matlock

as Clarinetist (Big 7)

Eddie Miller

as Saxophonist (Big 7)

Nick Fatool

as Drummer (Big 7)

Jud De Naut

as Bassist (Big 7)

Nesdon Booth

as Squat Henchman (uncredited)

Perry Botkin Sr.

as Tuxedo Band Member (uncredited)

Teddy Buckner

as Cornet Soloist (uncredited)

Harper Goff

as Tuxedo Band Banjo Player (uncredited)

Jester Hairston

as Mourner (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

as Drunk in Speakeasy (uncredited)

Hank Mann

as Argumentative Husband in Speakeasy (uncredited)

Harry 'Snub' Pollard

as Waiter (uncredited)

Joe Venuti

as Tuxedo Band Member (uncredited)

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