New Orleans (1947 film)
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New Orleans is a 1947 American musical romance film starring Arturo de Córdova and Dorothy Patrick, and directed by Arthur Lubin. Though it features a rather conventional plot, the film is noteworthy
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Storyville, New Orleans
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Storyville was the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 to 1917. It was established by municipal ordinance under the New Orleans City Council, to regulate prostitution. Sidney Story
New Orleans (1947 film)
…New Orleans is Holiday's only feature film appearance. A Storyville casino owner and a high society opera singer fall in love during the birth of the blues in New Orleans. Arturo de Córdova as Nick Duquesne…
One of the few surviving buildings from Storyville, 2005 photograph. 100 years earlier, the "New Image Supermarket" building housed Frank Early's saloon, where Tony Jackson regularly played.
Portrait of a sex worker in Storyville. Photograph by E. J. Bellocq, 1912.
Advertising flyer for the jazz pianist Tony Jackson, c. 1910