8-476: Big City Blues may refer to: Big City Blues (1932 film) , a 1932 drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy Big City Blues (1997 film) , a 1997 film starring Burt Reynolds Big City Blues (2:00 AM Paradise Cafe#Track listing) , a 1984 song by Barry Manilow Howling Wolf Sings the Blues , re-released in 1970 by United Records as Big City Blues Topics referred to by
16-456: A large amount of liquor and champagne from a local bootlegger and arranges a party in Bud's room. In addition to Vida and Faun, others joining the party include Jackie Devoe and more chorus girls, as well as three men: Stacky, Shep, and Lenny. Later in the evening, after considerable drinking, Shep and a very drunk Lenny begin arguing about who will take unconscious Jackie home. A fight ensues; furniture
24-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Big City Blues (1932 film) Big City Blues is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and distributed by Warner Bros. The film is based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse and stars Joan Blondell and Eric Linden , with uncredited early appearances by Humphrey Bogart and Lyle Talbot . Original prints and copies of
32-549: Is overturned; and lamps are broken. As the lights go out, Shep and Lenny continue their brawl. Bottles are also being wildly thrown and used as weapons in the darkened room. When the lights come back on, the revelers discover that Jackie, lying on a couch, is dead, killed by one of the bottles hitting her head. Everyone except Bud hurriedly leaves the hotel room, even Vida. The house detective, Hummel, soon discovers Jackie's body after seeing Vida, who has returned to get Bud. The young couple flees, but are later arrested along with some of
40-558: The motion picture are preserved in the collections of the Library of Congress , the UCLA Film and Television Archive , and in other major film repositories. Bud Reeves is a naive young man who lives in a small town in Indiana . After inheriting $ 1,100 ($ 24,600 today) from his aunt, he decides to use the money to move to New York City to find a job and start a new life. His dog Duke follows him to
48-420: The other partiers. All are finally cleared of any charges when back at the hotel Hummel finds the real killer, Lenny, whose corpse is hanging in a closet. Evidence shows that he committed the crime, and that in his guilt and remorse over Jackie's death he hanged himself. After a tearful goodbye with Vida, Bud goes back to Indiana, to find Duke patiently waiting for him at the station (the station agent collects on
56-718: The railroad station, and the station agent says he will take care of the pup but only as a loan, because he is certain that Bud will return home in a month or less, having spent some time in the city himself and being well aware how tough life can be there. Once in New York, Bud rents a modest but spacious hotel room and soon meets his much older, slick-talking cousin Gibby. Gibby immediately begins to fleece Bud out of small amounts of his cash to buy things. He also introduces him to chorus girl Vida Fleet and her friend Faun. Bud quickly falls in love with Vida. Trouble soon starts when Gibby purchases
64-425: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Big City Blues . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_City_Blues&oldid=1089748618 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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