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Honky Tonk is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lloyd Bacon released in USA on 31 august 1929 with Sophie Tucker
Honky Tonk (1929)
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Add to a movie listHonky Tonk is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film starring Sophie Tucker in her film debut. The film was a flop when released and is now lost, although the Vitaphone soundtrack for the film and for the trailer still exists. Tucker sings a number of songs in the movie, including her theme song "Some of These Days", and "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas", from which she took her billing as "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas".
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Sophie Tucker plays Sophie Leonard, a singer in a nightclub who at great sacrifice sends her daughter Beth (Lila Lee) to Europe to be educated, keeping her work as an entertainer a secret from her. When the grown-up, expensively educated Beth returns to America, she is shocked to discover her mother's true profession and disowns her, breaking Sophie's heart.Actors
Sophie Tucker
(Sophie Leonard)
Lila Lee
(Beth)
Wilbur Mack
(Stuttering Valet)
Tom Keene
(Freddie Gilmore)
Mahlon Hamilton
(Jim Blaken)
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