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Budget. $58 million. Box office. $25.9 million [1] The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins ' 1977 book of the same name. The story centers on the Cotton Club, a Harlem jazz club in the 1930s. The film stars Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, and ...
The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub from 1923 to 1940. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue (1923–1936), then briefly in the midtown Theater District (1936–1940). [ 1 ] The club operated during the United States' era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation.
Roy Radin (November 13, 1949 – last seen May 13, 1983, remains found June 10, 1983) was an American show business promoter who packaged vaudeville shows and oldies music nostalgia tours in the 1970s and early 1980s. He was probably best known for his attempts to help finance the film The Cotton Club (1984), and as the subsequent victim of a ...
Owen Vincent " Owney " Madden (December 18, 1891 – April 24, 1965) was an Irish-American gangster [1] who was a leading underworld figure in New York during Prohibition. Nicknamed "The Killer", he garnered a brutal reputation within street gangs and organized crime. He ran the Cotton Club in Manhattan and was a leading boxing promoter.
Cotton Club reopened Friday, February 11, 2000 with a show by Staind. [38] Cotton Club operated in the lower level of the Tabernacle until November 20, 2004. The last performer was Helmet. [39] The Tabernacle continues as a major concert venue in Atlanta. Conan O'Brien hosted a week of Conan shows at the Tabernacle from April 1 to 4, 2013. [40]
Jazz, dixieland, big band. Length. 42:58. Label. Geffen. Producer. John Barry. The Cotton Club is the soundtrack to the movie of the same name. The album won the Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1986. [2][3][4][5]
In 1929, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn. Will Vodery, Ziegfeld's musical supervisor, recommended Ellington for the show. [34]
Song. Published. 1932 by Mills Music. Composer (s) Harold Arlen. Lyricist (s) Ted Koehler. " I've Got the World on a String " is a 1932 popular jazz song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It was written for the twenty-first edition of the Cotton Club series which opened on October 23, 1932, the first of the Cotton ...