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Stormy Weather is a 1943 American musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox, adapted by Frederick J. Jackson, Ted Koehler and H.S. Kraft from the story by Jerry Horwin and Seymour B. Robinson, directed by Andrew L. Stone, produced by William LeBaron and starring Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Cab Calloway.
Its best remembered performance is in the finale of the movie Stormy Weather (1943). [3] In that routine, the Nicholas Brothers leapt exuberantly across the orchestra's music stands and danced on the top of a grand piano in a call and response act with the pianist, to the tune of "Jumpin' Jive". [3]
Stormy Weather, a British comedy film directed by Tom Walls; Stormy Weather, an American musical motion picture produced and released by 20th Century Fox in 1943; Stormy Weathers, a 1992 film directed by Will Mackenzie
The best movie musicals to ever hit our screens, from 'The Sound of Music,' to 'A Star Is Born.' ... Stormy Weather stars Lena Horne and an almost entirely African American cast—which was super ...
Stormy Weather" was performed by Horne in the 1943 film Stormy Weather, a big, all-star show for World War II soldiers. [ 5 ] 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.
Fred Astaire told the brothers that their dazzling footwork, leaps and splits in the Jumpin’ Jive dance in Stormy Weather (1943) produced the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen. In the number, the brothers dance on a piano and leap over performing musicians.
Wilson was cast in the film version of Stormy Weather (1943), as Gabe Tucker, the best friend of Bill Williamson (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson). It was the second all-black cast motion picture made by a major studio in the 1940s, after Cabin in the Sky. [7] Margaret Douglass, Wilson, and Joan McCracken in the Broadway musical Bloomer Girl (1944)
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