The cover of a video-tape release using the title of the film's re-release as The Bronze Venus.
Directed by
William Nolte
Written by
Adaptation: Phil Dunham
Produced by
Harry M. Popkin
Starring
Ralph Cooper Lena Horne
Cinematography
Robert E. Cline J. Henry Kruse
Edited by
Alice Greenwood Arthur A. Brooks
Music by
Harvey Brooks Ben Ellison
Production company
Million Dollar Productions
Distributed by
Million Dollar Productions
Release date
June 8, 1938 (1938-06-08)
Running time
73 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The Duke Is Tops (full film)
The Duke Is Tops is a 1938 American musical film released by Million Dollar Productions and directed by William Nolte. The film was later released in 1944 under the title The Bronze Venus. It features top-billed Lena Horne in her film debut, along with Ralph Cooper. The film was one of the low-budget musical film "race movies" made in the 1930s and 1940s for the African-American market. The casts and production teams of these films were almost all black, and the music reflected current tastes in jazz and rhythm and blues.
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Duke Fakir, is an American singer. He is a founding member of the Motown quartet the Four Tops, from 1953 to the present day. A tenor, Fakir isthe group's...
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include TheDukeIsTops, Dark Manhattan, Gangsters on the Loose and Gang War. Because of his debonair good looks, he was known as "dark Gable" in the 1930s...
Club-style revue on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Horne already had two low-budget movies to her credit: a musical feature called TheDukeisTops (1938, later...
Lena Horne, who was in California for her first movie role in TheDukeIsTops (1938); the film was so tightly budgeted, Horne had no money for a hotel...
for the popular Motown quartet, the Four Tops. Payton and Obie Benson both attended a Northern High School in Detroit and met Levi Stubbs and Duke Fakir...
bungalow on the MGM lot. Among the handful of films in which he himself appeared, the one that best showcased Covan's talents isTheDukeIsTops. While at...
leaving Duke Fakir as the only surviving member of the Four Tops' original lineup. Stubb's final performance with the Four Tops was at the group's "50th...
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Her film debut was in the 1938 melodrama Gang Smashers singing "That's What You Get in Harlem". She played Ella in TheDukeisTops (1938). She was in a...
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politician, leader of the Labour Party, cancer. Willie Covan, 91, American tap dancer, actor and vaudeville performer (TheDukeIsTops). Darío Echandía,...
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