Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022) | Full Cast

Sacha Jenkins

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Louis Armstrong

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Steve Allen

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Ernie Anderson

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Lucille Armstrong

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James Baldwin

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Amiri Baraka

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Danny Barker

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Count Basie

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Jon Batiste

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Leonard Bernstein

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Barney Bigard

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Jack Bradley

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Arthur Briggs

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James Brown

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Leslie Caron

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Dick Cavett

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Chuck Cecil

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Doc Cheatham

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Al Cobette

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Cozy Cole

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Sam Cooke

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Walter Cronkite

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Bing Crosby

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Stanley Crouch

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John Daly

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Sammy Davis Jr.

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Miles Davis

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Ossie Davis

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Peter Davis

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Mike Douglas

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Duke Ellington

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Orval Faubus

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Leonard Feather

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Ella Fitzgerald

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David Frost

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Dizzy Gillespie

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Joe Glaser

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Jackie Gleason

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Bobby Hackett

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Lil Hardin

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Jimi Hendrix

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Charlie Holmes

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Michael Jackson

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George James

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Harry James

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Manuela Jones

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Danny Kaye

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John F. Kennedy

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Alicia Keys

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Martin Luther King

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Larry Lubenow

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Humphrey Lyttelton

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Ellis Marsalis

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Wynton Marsalis

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Harpo Marx

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Dan Morgenstern

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De Lesseps Morrison

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Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton

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Edward R. Murrow

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Ray Nance

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Nas

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Kwame Nkrumah

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Joe Oliver

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Tony Randall

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Ricky Riccardi

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Fred Robbins

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Artie Shaw

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Archie Shepp

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Nina Simone

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Frank Sinatra Jr.

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Barbra Streisand

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Ed Sullivan

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Jack Teagarden

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Slim Thompson

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Enrico Tomaso

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Cicely Tyson

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Fred Ware

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Orson Welles

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Bert Williams

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James Young

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