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Green Book is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly.Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.
Dave Not Coming Back (French: La dernière plongée de Dave) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jonah Malak and released in 2020. [1] The film centres on diver Dave Shaw's death while attempting to recover the body of Deon Dreyer from the submerged Boesmansgat cave in 2005, through a mix of camcorder footage from the incident and the personal reflections of his surviving friend Don ...
Shirley was born on January 29, 1927, in Pensacola, Florida, [4] to Jamaican immigrants, Stella Gertrude (1903–1936), a teacher, and Edwin S. Shirley (1885–1982), an Episcopal priest. [5] His birthplace was sometimes incorrectly given as Kingston, Jamaica , because his label advertised him as being Jamaican-born. [ 4 ]
His life in the early 1960s, when he was the driver and bodyguard for the black classical pianist Don Shirley, was dramatized in the 2018 film Green Book, in which he was portrayed by Viggo Mortensen. [1] The film won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. [2]
Critical reviews for the score were positive, with Ani Bundel of Elite Daily felt that "The soundtrack is a celebration of this music, even including a piano piece played by the real Don Shirley, plus many other fantastic songs of the era, intermixed with original compositions by the movie's composer, Kristopher Bowers". [3]
And Shirley would be like, ‘Well, I don’t agree with her politics, but I’ve got to treat her like a human being.'" Ridley added he was pleased that "Shirley" is coming out in 2024.
Shirley MacLaine and her brother Warren Beatty are two of the most successful siblings ever to hit Hollywood. They're both Oscar-winning legends who have appeared in a number of classic films.
Green Book is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly.The film is set in 1962 and follows Italian–American bouncer Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), who is hired as a chauffeur by African American pianist Don Shirley for a tour of concert venues in the Deep South.