Let's Scuffle

Overview

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any movie with an all-black cast, intended primarily for distribution in black neighbourhoods at a time when many American cinemas were segregated.) The song-and-dance performer here is none other than the great Bill Robinson.

Cast

Bill Robinson

HImself

J

Jeanne Bayer

Bar-room Patron

D

Deanie Gordon

Patron in Bar-room

W

Winnie Johnson

Patron