Stormy Weather

They Set Basin Street to Broadway Ablaze With Sizzling Songs and Hot Rhythm!

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.

Music

Lena Horne

(Selina Rogers)

Bill Robinson

(Bill Williamson)

Cab Calloway

Katherine Dunham

(Katherine Dunham)

Fats Waller

('Fats' Waller)

Fayard Nicholas

Harold Nicholas

Ada Brown

Dooley Wilson

Doris Ake

(Dancer (uncredited))

Juliette Ball

(Dancer (uncredited))

Lucille Battle

(Dancer (uncredited))

Matthew Beard

(Stagehand (uncredited))

Talley Beatty

(Dancer (uncredited))

Lennie Bluett

(Dancer / Nightclub Patron (uncredited))

Anise Boyer

(Singer (uncredited))

Teddy Buckner

(Band Member (uncredited))

Judy Carol

(Chorus Girl (uncredited))

Benny Carter

(Trumpeter (uncredited))

Janet Collins

(Dancer (uncredited))

Vivian Dandridge

(Dancer (uncredited))

Robert Felder

(Cab Calloway, Jr. (uncredited))

Louise Franklin

(Dancer (uncredited))

Ruby Golden

(Fat Girl (uncredited))

Suzette Harbin

(Dancer / Nightclub Patron (uncredited))

Avanelle Harris

(Dancer (uncredited))

Kathleen Hartsfield

(Hatcheck Girl / Dancer (uncredited))

Maggie Hathaway

(Dancer (uncredited))

Charles Hawkins

(Dancer (uncredited))

Coleman Hawkins

(Saxophonist (uncredited))

Cleo Herndon

(Dancer (uncredited))

Johnny Horace

(Member The Shadracks (uncredited))

Illinois Jacquet

(Band Member (uncredited))

Mae E. Johnson

(May Johnson (uncredited))

Jo Jones

(Drummer (uncredited))

Johnny Lee

(Lyles (uncredited))

Jeni Le Gon

(Dancer (uncredited))

Rosalie Lincoln

(Dancer (uncredited))

F.E. Miller

(Skit (uncredited))

Taps Miller

(Trumpeter (uncredited))

Millie Monroe

(Dancer (uncredited))

Tommie Moore

(Dancer / Nightclub Patron)

Florence O'Brien

(Tucker's Gold-Digging Girlfriend (uncredited))

Neva Peoples

(Nightclub Dancer (uncredited))

Henry Phace Roberts

(Dancer (uncredited))

Ruth Scott

(Dancer (uncredited))

Zutty Singleton

(Band Member (uncredited))

Ned Stanfield

(Member The Shadracks (uncredited))

Nick Stewart

(Cousin Jake (uncredited))

Johnny Thomas

(Dancer (uncredited))

Lena Torrence

(Chorus Girl (uncredited))

Emmett 'Babe' Wallace

(Chick Bailey (uncredited))

Ernest Whitman

(Jim Europe (uncredited))

Artie Young

(Dancer (uncredited))