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Plot summary
Dancer Bill Williamson tells his story to the children of his neighborhood, who know him as Mr. Bill. He goes back to 1918, when he came home from serving in World War I and met Selina Rogers, the sister of a fellow soldier and a singer and dancer herself. He heads to New Orleans to become a performer, and along the way Selina comes back into his life. She persuades Chick Bailey, the manager of her act, to hire Bill, but Chick becomes jealous when Bill outshines him on stage and lets him go. Bill's friend Gabe Tucker is broke as usual and full of bold ideas.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Stormy Weather (1943)
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- Stormy Weather (1943) was the last film for dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, who died in 1949; Fats Waller, who appears as himself, died only a few months after its release.
- Stormy Weather is loosely based on the life of its star, dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, but the character Selina was invented for the film: Robinson never had such a romance in real life.
- In 2001, Stormy Weather was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, which deemed it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
- Lena Horne's performance of "Good For Nothin' Joe" was left out of Stormy Weather, but the Soundtrack Factory CD of the film's music includes her singing it.
- Stormy Weather was one of Lena Horne's few non-MGM film appearances and one of only two films from the 1930s-1940s in which she played a substantial role.
