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Filmed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, the show features live performances from both professional and up-and-coming artists, and also features the Amateur Night competition. In many cities such as New York (where it aired on WNBC ), it often aired after Saturday Night Live during the late Saturday night/early Sunday morning hours, and was ...
Marquee for Amateur Night at the Apollo. Amateur Night was first hosted in 1934 [284] [367] or 1935 [32] [245] and has been hosted nearly continuously since then, except from the 1970s to 1985. [23] [368] Schiffman had introduced an amateur night at the Lafayette Theater, where Ralph Cooper had hosted Harlem Amateur Hour; [34] Cooper hosted the ...
Cooper is best known as the original master of ceremonies and founder of amateur night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City, in 1935. He wrote, produced, directed and acted in ten motion pictures. Titles include The Duke Is Tops, Dark Manhattan, Gangsters on the Loose and Gang War. Because of his debonair good looks, he was known as ...
Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan head to Nashville, L.A., Santa Barbara, Tuskegee, and Leesburg, Va., to audition the talent for ‘American Idol’ Season 7 on ABC. Photos! See All 17 ...
Ralph Cooper was an experienced black actor nicknamed "Dark Gable" [3] who was also a singer, dancer, comedian and emcee at the Apollo Theater Amateur Night in Harlem. While contracted to 20th Century Fox, Cooper learned film making skills. [4]
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As a child performer, Carpenter had her own radio show on WNYC in New York and won an amateur night at the Apollo Theatre in 1938, where she would be honored and perform nearly 60 years later on the 1993 all-star NBC-TV special Apollo Theater Hall of Fame, hosted by Bill Cosby. [2]
Co-producers on the recently finished dystopian thriller “Tomorrow Before After,” Apollo Pictures and Sivela Pictures are teaming on an entire slate of genre feature films with top Colombian ...