The “Public Melody Number One” musical sequence from Raoul Walsh’s 1937 film Artists and Models, staged by Vincente Minnelli and featuring Louis Armstrong and Martha Raye. Raye darkened her skin with makeup in order to appear on screen with Armstrong:
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