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"Stormy Weather" is a 1933 song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem. It became a hit record and inspired a film adaptation.

The film version of Stormy Weather is a 1943 musical film that tells in flashback the story of a famous dancer who meets a young singer, both on the rise, whose lives intersect only briefly over the years.

The song tells of disappointment, as the lyrics, "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky" show someone pining for her man to return. The weather is a metaphor for the feelings of the singer; "stormy weather since my man and I ain't together, keeps raining all the time." It was covered by rock group Smoking Popes on their 2003 album The Party's Over.

The movie was adapted by Frederick J. Jackson, Ted Koehler and H.S. Kraft from the story by Jerry Horwin and Seymour B. Robinson. It was directed by Andrew L. Stone.

The title was (possibly) taken from the name of a yacht: "Stormy Weather".

In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Cast

Lena Horne
- Selina Rogers
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson - Bill Williamson
Cab Calloway - himself
Katherine Dunham - herself
Fats Waller - himself
Fayard Nicholas - himself (as Nicholas Brothers)
Harold Nicholas - himself (as Nicholas Brothers)
Ada Brown - herself
Dooley Wilson
- Gabe Tucker

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