St. Louis Blues is a 1929 American two-reel short film starring Bessie Smith.

[1] Neither rumor was true, but when a print was discovered in Mexico in the 1940s, the event was treated as a significant development, even though copies had, in fact, been available elsewhere.

A heartbroken Bessie finds herself in a speakeasy, where a chorus of other patrons accompany her in singing "St. Louis Blues".

[1] According to Bessie Smith biographer Chris Albertson: "In 1950, a group of white liberals petitioned the NAACP to buy and destroy the print found in Mexico, which they believed to be the only copy extant.

"[1] However, in 2022, film scholar Cinta Pelejà disputed this claim as a myth that possibly originated in the years following World War II.