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  1. Fredricka DeCosta. Writer: Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes. Fredricka DeCosta is known for Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes (1974).

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  3. Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes: Directed by Bill Brame. With Frank DeKova, Paul Harris, Frances E. Williams, Reginald Farmer. A numbers king pin tries to stay in business as the mafia and police close in around him.

  4. Oct 14, 2014 · Jive Turkey (1974) - Feature. Also known as BABY NEEDS A NEW PAIR OF SHOES, this 1974 gem features a high heel-wielding killer. Big Tony (Frank DeKova) is a black kingpin trying to keep it real as he fends off Italian mobsters, the police, and various local hoodlums in this exploitation masterpiece.

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    Released in 1974
    Color
    Running Time: 86 Min
    Production Co: First American Films | Ransom
    USA (reissue title) - Get Nigger Rich on Number 666
    USA (reissue title) - Jive Turkey
    7 Seven, Come Eleven 11
    Feeling great...Walking tall...Hit my number, That's all!

    Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes is one of Blaxploitation’s most obscure (and twisted) entries. Released in 1974 first as Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes (an appropriation of a gambling phrase), then as the more hip-sounding Jive Turkey and, finally, as (the purposely controversial) Nigger Rich (!), budget filmmaker Bill (Miss Melody Jones) Bramme’s l...

  5. Read all about Fredricka Decosta with TV Guide's exclusive biography including their list of awards, celeb facts and more at TV Guide.

  6. In 1950s Harlem a vicious Italian gangster (Frank deKova) tries to muscle in on a black racketeer's (Paul Harris) numbers game.