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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 1930s Harlem jazz club.
Adelaide Hall, star of the Cotton Club Cab Calloway was another of the original Cotton Club performers. Ethel Waters starred at the Cotton Club Lena Horne as a young girl was featured at the Cotton Club. Dorothy Dandridge, entertainer at the Cotton Club. The Cotton Club was a 20th-century nightclub in New York City.
Fannie Mae Duncan. Fannie Mae Duncan (1918-2005) was an African-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and community activist in Colorado Springs, Colorado.She is best known as the proprietor of the Cotton Club, an early integrated jazz club in Colorado Springs named for the famous club in Harlem.
Ill Wing Song Music Cover, 1934 "Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)" is a song composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Ted Koehler.It was written for their last show at the Cotton Club in 1934 and was sung by Adelaide Hall [1] In an interview, Adelaide Hall explained how she performed the song to great effect during the show:
The Cotton Club may refer to: Cotton Club, a famous nightclub in New York City; Cotton Club (Portland, Oregon), a now-defunct club;
The Cotton Club Boys were African American chorus line entertainers who, from 1934, performed class act dance routines in musical revues produced by the Cotton Club until 1940, when the club closed, then as part of Cab Calloway's revue on tour through 1942.
In 2002 Boisseau was the subject of the documentary Cotton Club Girl. [citation needed] The film draws the portrait of her personality showing her current life and memories from the 1930s when she danced in the Cotton Club working with Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Boisseau died May 22, 2012. [1]
The Cotton Club was a night club in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Cotton Club may also refer to: Cotton Club (Portland, Oregon), a club in Portland, Oregon, U.S. Cotton Club (Las Vegas), a club in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. The Cotton Club, a 1984 film that contains a fictionalized version of events from the New York City Cotton Club