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Satchmo the Great

10/04/1957

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1hr 3min

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Music

,Documentary

STORY

In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz at its best to the people of the world. Within the film, the life of Louis Armstrong is portrayed through the music. One of the outstanding scenes in this "biography/docudrama" shows blind songwriter W. C. Handy, with tears streaming down his face, as Armstrong, backed by Leonard Bernstein leading the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, play Handy's immortal "St. Louis Blues."

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Louis Armstrong
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Edward R. Murrow

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

      Production Countries

    • United States of America

    LANGUAGES

      Cast

      Louis Armstrong

      Edward R. Murrow

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