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All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider.The screenplay, by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse, is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as a dancer, choreographer and director.
"All That Jazz" is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago.It has music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, and is the opening song of the musical.The title of the 1979 film, starring Roy Scheider as a character strongly resembling choreographer/stage and film director Bob Fosse, is derived from the song.
Roy Richard Scheider (/ ˈ ʃ aɪ d ər /; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor.Described by AllMovie as "one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors", [1] he achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s through to the mid-1980s.
In 1979, Fosse co-wrote and directed a semi-autobiographical film All That Jazz (1979), starring Roy Scheider, which portrayed the life of a womanizing, drug-addicted choreographer and director in the midst of triumph and failure. Ann Reinking appears in the film as the protagonist's lover, protégée and domestic partner.
Ann Reinking sang and danced to the song accompanied by Leland Palmer and Erzsébet Földi during the "Hallucination Sequence" in the 1979 film, All That Jazz, directed by Bob Fosse. Reinking, Fosse's previous partner, directs the song to Roy Scheider playing Joe Gideon, a semi-autobiographical version of Fosse himself.
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The phrase and all that jazz means "and other such things", "and all that sort of thing". It is recorded in print in this sense as early as 1959, and was associated with the city of Chicago in Frank Sinatra's 1964 rendition of "My Kind of Town", where the lyric "Chicago is my kind of razzmatazz, and it has all that jazz" is sung.