

“They Set Basin Street to Broadway Ablaze With Sizzling Songs and Hot Rhythm!”
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The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
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Lena Horne
Selina Rogers

Bill Robinson
Bill Williamson

Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway

Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham

Fats Waller
'Fats' Waller

Fayard Nicholas
Dancer

Harold Nicholas
Dancer

Ada Brown
Singer

Dooley Wilson
Gabe Tucker
Doris Ake
Dancer (uncredited)
Juliette Ball
Dancer (uncredited)
Lucille Battle
Dancer (uncredited)

Matthew Beard
Stagehand (uncredited)
Talley Beatty
Dancer (uncredited)
Lennie Bluett
Dancer / Nightclub Patron (uncredited)