 The short movie was a big success. In 1946, Billboard magazine reported, Caldonia has been one of the very few all-Negro productions to get bookings in southern white theaters. Jordan would go on to star in several all-Negro productions, as well as cameo in other Hollywood films during his pioneering decade of the 1940s. Jordan's wife at the time, Fleecy Moore of Brassfield in Prairie County, has actually given credit for writing Caldonia Boogie.