Reet, Petite, and Gone
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Cast

  • Louis Jordan
    Louis Jordan
    Louis Thomas Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the...

     as Schyler Jarvis / Louis Jarvis
  • June Richmond as June
  • Milton Woods as Sam Adams
  • Bea Griffith as Honey Carter / Lovey Linn
  • David Bethea as Dolph the butler
  • Lorenzo Tucker
    Lorenzo Tucker
    Lorenzo Tucker , known as the "Black Valentino," was an African-American stage and screen actor who played the romantic lead in the early black films of Oscar Micheaux.-Acting career:...

     as Henry Talbot
  • Vanita Smythe as Rusty
  • Mabel Lee
    Mabel Lee
    Mabel Lee is a translator of the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian. She has taught Asian studies at the University of Sydney and is one of Australia's leading authorities on Chinese cultural affairs...

     as Mabel
  • Dots Johnson
    Dots Johnson
    Hylan Johnson , professionally known as Dots Johnson and Dotts Johnson, was an African American stage and film actor. He was best known for his roles as the American MP in Roberto Rossellini's 1946 feature Paisan and as the boxing manager in the 1953 production The Joe Louis Story.-External links:...

     as Michaels
  • Pat Rainey as Pat Rains
  • Rudy Toombs
    Rudy Toombs
    Rudolph "Rudy" Toombs , born in Monroe, Louisiana, was an American black songwriter who wrote "Teardrops from My Eyes", Ruth Brown's first number one R&B successful song...

     as Hal
  • J. Louis Johnson as Schyler Jarvis Sr.
  • Joe Lillard
    Joe Lillard
    Joseph Johnny Lillard Jr. was an American football, baseball, and basketball player. From 1932 to 1933, he was a running back for the National Football League's Chicago Cardinals. Along with Ray Kemp, Lillard was the last African American to play in the NFL until Kenny Washington and Woody Strode...

     as Lt. Jerome

Soundtrack

  • Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "Texas and Pacific" (by Jack Wolf Fine)
  • Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "All for the Love of Lil"
  • Bea Griffith and Louis Jordan - "Tonight, Be Tender to Me"
  • Pat Rainey, Mabel Lee with Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five - "The Blues Ain't Nothin'" (Written by Ida Cox
    Ida Cox
    Ida Cox was an African American singer and vaudeville performer, best known for her blues performances and recordings...

    )
  • Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "The Green Grass Grew all Around" (by William Jerome
    William Jerome
    William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...

    , arrangement by Louis Jordan)
  • June Richmond - "I've Changed Completely"
  • Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "Wham, Sam! (Dig Them Gams)" (Written by Louis Jordan)
  • Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "I Know What You're Puttin' Down" (Written by Louis Jordan)
  • Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "Let The Good Times Roll
    Let the Good Times Roll
    Let the Good Times Roll may refer to:*"Let the Good Times Roll" *"Let the Good Times Roll" *Let the Good Times Roll , a 1999 album by B.B...

    " (Written by Spo-De-Odee and Fleecie Moore)
  • Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "Reet, Petite, and Gone" (Written by Louis Jordan)
  • June Richmond and Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "You Got Me Where You Want Me" (writer info not available)
  • Louis Jordan with chorus girls - "That Chick's too Young to Fry" (Written by Tommy Edwards
    Tommy Edwards
    Tommy Edwards was a singer and songwriter. His biggest-selling record was with the multi-million-selling song, "It's All in the Game."-Career:...

     and Jimmy Hilliard)
  • Louis Jordan - "Ain't That Just Like a Woman?" (Written by Fleecie Moore and Claude Demetri)
  • Louis Jordan with Bea Griffith - "If It's Love You Want, Baby, That's Me" (Written by Sid Robin)
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