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The Duke Is Tops
The cover of a video-tape release using the title of the film's re-release as The Bronze Venus.
Directed byWilliam Nolte
Written byAdaptation: Phil Dunham
Produced byHarry M. Popkin
StarringRalph Cooper
Lena Horne
CinematographyRobert E. Cline
J. Henry Kruse
Edited byAlice Greenwood
Arthur A. Brooks
Music byHarvey Brooks
Ben Ellison
Production
company
Million Dollar Productions
Distributed byMillion Dollar Productions
Release date
  • June 8, 1938 (1938-06-08)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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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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