Beale Street Mama
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Beale Street Mama is a 1946 race film directed by and starring Spencer Williams
and distributed by Sack Amusement Enterprises. The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee
and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly-acquired wealth to go on a spending spree, with the hope of getting back at an old girlfriend who dumped him for another man. However, complications arise when it is discovered the money is counterfeit.
No copyright was filed for Beale Street Mama, which makes the production a public domain
film.
Spencer Williams (actor)
Spencer Williams was an African American actor and filmmaker. He was best known for playing Andy in the Amos 'n Andy television show and for the directing the 1941 race film The Blood of Jesus. Williams was a pioneer African-American film producer and director.-Early career:Williams...
and distributed by Sack Amusement Enterprises. The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly-acquired wealth to go on a spending spree, with the hope of getting back at an old girlfriend who dumped him for another man. However, complications arise when it is discovered the money is counterfeit.
No copyright was filed for Beale Street Mama, which makes the production a public domain
Public domain
Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
film.