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Pete Kelly's Blues is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jack Webb released in USA on 31 july 1955 with Jack Webb
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
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Add to a movie listPete Kelly's Blues is a 1955 musical-crime film based on the 1951 original radio series. It was directed by and starred Jack Webb in the title role of a bandleader and musician. Janet Leigh is featured as party girl Ivy Conrad, and Edmond O'Brien as a gangster who applies pressure to Kelly.
Peggy Lee portrays alcoholic jazz singer Rose Hopkins (a performance for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role). Ella Fitzgerald makes a cameo as singer Maggie Jackson (a character played by a white actress in the radio series). Lee Marvin, Martin Milner and a very young Jayne Mansfield also make early career appearances.
Much of the dialogue was written by writers who wrote the radio series Pat Novak for Hire, (1946-1949) and the radio version of Pete Kelly's Blues (1951), both in which Webb starred for a time before creating Dragnet.
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Jazz cornetist Pete Kelly (Webb) and his Big Seven are the house band at the 17 Club, a speakeasy in Kansas City in 1927 during Prohibition. New local crime boss Fran McCarg (Edmond O'Brien) wants a percentage of the band's meager earnings. Despite the band's opposition, Kelly wisely gives in.Actors
Jack Webb
(Pete Kelly)
Janet Leigh
(Ivy Conrad)
Edmond O'Brien
(Fran McCarg)
Peggy Lee
(Rose Hopkins)
Andy Devine
(George Tenell)
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