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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.
Inspired to make The Cotton Club by a picture-book history of the nightclub by James Haskins, Robert Evans was the film's original producer. [3] Evans hoped the film would bring public attention to African-American history in a similar way that Gone with the Wind did for the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era.
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.
Maurice Hines, an actor, dancer and choreographer who starred with his brother Gregory Hines in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club,” died Friday. He was 80. Friends including Debbie ...
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, a 1984 film centered on the New York club The Cotton Club; See also. Cotton Club (disambiguation)
The Cotton Club Boys were African American chorus line entertainers who, from 1934, ... Largest 4-day opening in the club's history; opening night drew 9,084 patrons.
The Cotton Club Encore, Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edit of his 1984 period movie musical and gangster film, debuted at the New York Film Festival. Encore, now eleven minutes longer, differs from ...
She, like the majority of the Cotton Clubs Girls, criticized the film as it didn’t accurately capture the history of the club and the famous chorus line, focusing more on violence and gangsters. [9] In 1984 Boisseau starred in a cabaret musical entertainment Shades of Harlem. [10] It re-creates Harlem’s Cotton Club in the decade of the 20 ...