The Strip
“M-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer!”
1951•NR•1h 25m•5.9•Released
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Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.
Director
László Kardos
Writer
Allen Rivkin
Languages
English
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Mickey Rooney
Stanley Maxton
Sally Forrest
Jane Tafford
William Demarest
Fluff
James Craig
Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson
Kay Brown
Edna
Louis Armstrong
Himself
Myrna Dell
Paulette Ardrey
Vic Damone
Himself
Art Lewis
Sam
Tommy Rettig
Artie Ardrey
Tom Powers
Lt. Detective Bonnabel
Jonathan Cott
Behr
Jacqueline Fontaine
Frieda
Monica Lewis
Herself
Jack Teagarden
Himself
Production
Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer
Joe Pasternak
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