Pete Kelly's Blues

Burbank, CA: Mark VII Ltd. / Warner Brothers, 1955. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1955 film noir, showing composer Ray Heindorf at the piano, with actress Janet Leigh and director Jack Webb to the left. With the stamps of Warner Brothers and photographer Floyd McCarty to the verso.

In 1927, a Kansas City trumpet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

Songwriter and composer Ray Heindorf is today best remembered for his work in film soundtracks, and was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards through the course of his four-decade career in Hollywood.

Set and shot on location in Oregon.

10 x 8 inches. Lightly worn on the right edge, else Near Fine.

Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.

[Book #161070]