St. Louis Blues

Nat King Cole as W.C. Handy Cab Calloway as Blade Ella Fitzgerald as Singer Ruby Dee as Elizabeth Billy Preston as Will Handy as a Boy Pearl Bailey as Aunt Hagar Eartha Kitt as Gogo Germaine Mahalia Jackson as Bessie May Juano Hernández as Rev. Charles Handy

Edith Head Costume Design Mack David Lyricist Mercedes Gilbert Lyricist Nelson Riddle Music Sam Comer Set Decoration Wally Westmore Makeup Designer