SYNOPSIS:

Café Society Blues is the story of the first truly integrated nightclub that opened in Greenwich Village in 1939, and the partnership of proprietor Barney Josephson (Paul Giamatti ideal) and Columbia Records producer, John Hammond (Brad Pitt ideal) who launched the likes of Billie Holiday where she introduced the controversial song “Strange Fruit”, Lena Horne, Jack Gilford, Zero Mostel, Comden & Green, and others before being shuttered by the looming forces of J. Edgar Hoover and HUAC.