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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.
When the Cotton Club closed in 1940, Calloway and his band went on a tour of the United States. [2] In 1941 Calloway fired Dizzy Gillespie from his orchestra after an onstage fracas. Calloway wrongly accused Gillespie of throwing a spitball; in the ensuing altercation Gillespie stabbed Calloway in the leg with a small knife. [3]
The Cotton Club Boys were African American chorus line ... 1915 - 2000); his sister Winnie Johnson (1918 - 1980) [26] was a member of the Cotton Club Girls, ...
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 of Miami featured a troupe of 48 people, including singer Sallie Blair, George Kirby, Abbey Lincoln, and the dance troupe of Norma Miller. The success of the shows led to the Cotton Club Revue of 1957 which had stops at the Royal Nevada Hotel in Las Vegas, the Theatre Under The Sky in Central Park, Town Casino in Buffalo.
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.
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. After increased attention from law enforcement in New York, Madden moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1935, where he remained until his death from natural causes in 1965.
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]