Stormy Weather (1943) 

 

Release date: November 17, 1943

Director: Andrew L. Stone

Writer(s): Frederick J. Jackson (screenplay) (as Frederick Jackson), Ted Koehler (screenplay), H.S. Kraft (adaptation), Jerry Horwin (from an original story by), Seymour B. Robinson

Starring: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson

Estimated budget: N/A

 

Bill Williamson (Bill Robinson), a struggling performer, meets a beautiful vocalist named Selina Rogers (Lena Horne). Bill promises her that they will be together after he becomes a success. However, he and Selina both skyrocket to fame and lose contact. Fortunately, Bill just might get one more chance to woo Selina at a huge musical stage show. Popular entertainers of the 1940s, including Fats Waller and Cab Calloway, perform as themselves in the film.