Bessie Smith in St. Louis Blues (RKO, 1929)
Posted by: Mike Mashon
This guest post was written by Amy Jo Stanfill, Processing Technician in the Moving Image Section and coordinator of the Silent Film Project. RKO’s St. Louis Blues, directed by Dudley Murphy and starring Bessie Smith, was named to the National Film Registry in 2006. This two-reel early sound short premiered in New York before the …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry