Moon Over Harlem

69 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Moon Over Harlem is a 1939 American race film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

A gangster, Dollar Bill Richards, seduces a wealthy widow, Minnie, to get his hands on her money.

• Bud Harris as Dollar Bill
• Cora Green as Minnie
• Izinetta Wilcox as Sue
• Earl Gough as Bob
• Zerita Stepteau as Jackie
• Petrina Moore as Alice
• Daphne Fray as Pat
• Mercedes Gilbert as Jackie's mother
• Frances Harrod as Maud
• Alec Lovejoy as Fats
• Walter Richardson as Brother Hornsby
• Slim Thompson as Long-Boy
• Freddie Robinson as Half-Pint
• John Bunn as Wallstreet
• Marieluise Bechet as Nina Mae Brown
• Archie Cross as A Boy from Newark
• William Woodward as A Boy from Newark
• John Fortune as Jamaica
• Audrey Talbird as Connie
• Marie Young as Jean
• Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew as Themselves
• Sidney Bechet as himself - Clarinetist

• "My Hope Chest of Dreams" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
• Zerita Stepteau - "St. Louis Blues" (1914) (Music and lyrics by W.C. Handy)
• Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew and sung by Izinetta Wilcox and chorus - "Teach Me How to Sing Again" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
• Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew - "Save Some of Those Roses for Me" (published title) as "Save Me Some of Those Kisses" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
• Mourners at the funeral - "One More River to Cross" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
• "Moon Over Harlem" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
• "Stand Together Children" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)
• "Lullaby" (1939) (Music and lyrics by Donald Heywood)

• Moon Over Harlem at IMDb
• Moon Over Harlem at the TCM Movie Database
• Moon Over Harlem is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
• Moon Over Harlem (1939) at The Department of Afro American Research, Arts, and Culture's Archive (DAARAC)