Mamie Smith

C'est l'histoire d'un comédien Lem Anderson qui rêve de jouer dans des scènes de Shakespeare mais il n'est appliqué que rôle dans Harlem Vaudeville. Un jour, il est témoin d'un crime et le mafieux lui a vivement conseillé de quitter la ville ...

Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall...who wants revenge; and Pa's ward Jim Bracton, a two-timing Romeo whose affairs are coming to a crisis. And hanging around is Marshall's murderous junkie henchman, Lomax. Will it all end in someone's being killed?

Robert Gordon, a sheltered 18-year-old youth reared in a Catholic school, believes he has a vocation for the priesthood. He is taken to live with his father in his palatial Florida home. There he falls in love with his step-sister, Patricia Morrow, ten years his senior. He runs away and joins the R.A.F. Shot down in battle, he is rescued and taken to a monastery where he renounces the world to study for the priesthood.

Mamie is missing her man, and finds him in jail. She pleads through her singing for his release.