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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Jack Johnson's second club opened in Harlem, New York in 1920 under the name of Club Deluxe. He sold it to a local racketeer in 1923, who changed the name to Cotton Club. Ironically, despite being opened as a black and tan club, it changed to white only upon sale. It desegregated again in June 1935, however.
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
Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center will host dance party to raise funds. It will be held 7-10 p.m. Friday at the museum at 837 SE Seventh Ave.