Duke Ellington filmography

"The Jackie Gleason Show"
Anatomy of a Murder
Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband's story, the police surgeon can find no evidence that she has been raped. Manion is defended by Paul Biegler (James Stewart), a rather humble small-town lawyer. During the course of interviews, Biegler discovers that Manion is violently possessive and jealous, and also that his wife has a reputation for giving her favors to other men. Biegler realizes that the prosecution will try to make the court believe that Laura was the lover of the bartender and than Manion killed him and beat her up when he discovered them together. Manion pleads "not guilty" and Biegler, who knows that his case is weak, sets his assistants to try to find a witness who will save Manion.
Written by alfiehitchie "The United States Steel Hour"
Jam Session
Belle of the Nineties
Ruby Carter (Mae West), the American Beauty queen of the night club-sporting world, shifts her operations from St.Louis to New Orleans (which kind of belies the Western genre designation), mostly to get away from prizefighter Tiger Kid (Roger Pryor). Installed as the prize attraction of "The Sensation Club", ran by Ace Lamont (John Miljan), she quickly becomes the toast of the town and also marked as personal property by Ace, arousing the fury of Ace's former flame, Molly Brant (Katherine de Mille). The not-overly-bright Tiger comes to town and is set for a title match with the champ by Ace, while the latter also has him steal some of Ruby's jewels. Ruby, no dumb-belle, figuring Ace has the fix in on the fight, uses some of her other jewels to lay a trap for Ace. Tiger confesses, after the fight, to Ruby his role in the jewel robbery while she hints that Ace was the one who slipped him the knock-out drops. Tiger goes after Ace, who, for his own reasons, has Molly locked in a closet.
Written by Les Adams {longhorn@abilene.com}

Information source: imdb.com

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