There are those who can't stand Stepin Fetchit - there are those who don't like songs about women getting beaten by their man and who still love him. What can you do - both of these things were products of their times and typical of prevailing attitudes. Stepin Fetchit still plays Stepin Fetchit in a race film, no doubt almost exclusively seen by black audiences of the 1940s. If you can get past these flawed approaches and attitudes, then this is a very enjoyable film, basically a stage show of fine singing and dancing. Francine Everett (Betty Washburn) was beautiful, talented and famous. The other vocalists, dancers and the all-woman black band were hardly known - if you can go by their bios on IMDb, each appearing in only 3 or 4 films. The IMDb bios have little more info than their birth and death dates - really unfortunate that no students/scholars of black entertainment, and who presumably have more info on these performers, have not found the time to add real bios to the skimpy IMDb versions. Anyway, en entertaining 37 minutes of song and dance.

Shame the peron who put this up hasnt put many relevant tags on with it. If you were looking for any material relevant to Afro-americans for research purposes you would have to dig deep to find this. It shows the status issues of black folks of the era etc. Deservs to be seen by more people

Entertaining and interesting.
It was funny and enjoyable.