The Duke is Tops (1939) | Lena Horne's Movie Debut

The Duke Is Tops (The Bronze Venus) 1938 Dir: Nolte, William. Prod: Popkin, Harry M. Co: Million Dollar Productions. Cast: Ralph Cooper, Lena Home, Lawrence Criner, Monte Hawley, Vernon McCallum, Edward Thompson, Neva Peoples, Charles Hawkins, Johnny Taylor, Everett Brown, Arthur Ray, Ray Martin, Guernsey Morrow, Willie Covan, Basin Street Boys, Rubber Neck Holmes, Cats and the Fiddle, Marie Bryant, Swing Band, Harlemania Orchestra. The Bronze Venus, 1943 is the re-released The Duke Is Tops, 1938. Associate producer: Leo C. Popkin. Production manager: Walter Buck Jones. Supervising editor: Arthur A. Brooks. Screen adaptation: Phil Dunham. Supervisor: Halley Harding. Associate direc-tor: Herman Webber. Photography: Robert Cline, Henry Kruse. Recording engineer: Glen Glen. Set design: Vin Taylor. Musical direc-tor: Lou Frohman. Music arranger: Phil Moore. Film editor: Alice Greenwood. Ensemble numbers: Lew Crawford. Music: Ben Ellison & Harvey Brooks. Reviews in The Philadel-phia Tribune, 8/4/38, the Pittsburgh Courier, 4/22/39, & 6/25/38 and the Kansas City Call, 6/24/38. (Feature / 80 min. / B&W / Sound.) This is the story of a producer-performer team which has to break up when one, the lady, gets a better job in New York. The man's career fails, while the lady is at first a big hit; then she also fails. They both struggle to make ends meet — until they get together again for the finale, when combined efforts put them back in the big time - Larry Richards

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