Word: nightspots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morton because "I didn't want to be called 'Frenchy' ") was much like the end. He was born hard by the cribs of New Orleans' tough and fabled Storyville. When Author Lomax met him in 1938, he was pounding the piano in a dingy Washington nightspot. That same year, Jelly Roll was stabbed in a brawl there, and he died broke in Los Angeles...
Wally Williams (nicely played by Melvyn Douglas) is a thoroughgoing heel. He got hold of the nightspot through blackmailing the previous owner; he frightens the help, seduces the showgirls, mistreats his own family. When he gets into financial straits, he determines to go down the same brutal way he came up. He frames one of his partners, breaks the piano-playing hand of the other, sets fire to the nightclub rather than have any other boss set foot...