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When a sweet Southern girl comes to Harlem looking for work, she becomes a star but gets involved in some risky business.

Built around the premise of a Big Stage Show, Stormy Weather affords rare mainstream leading roles to some of the era's greatest African-American entertainers Lena Horne, Bill Bojangles Robinson, Dooley Wilson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller, and the Nicholas Brothers.

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Penny Hale is the daughter of a once wealthy architect and widower now ruined by the depression and working as the maintenance man. Always positive, she refuses to accept their drop in the world and believes prosperity is just around the corner.