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All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse.The final work of its sole producer Robert Alan Aurthur, who wrote the screenplay with Fosse and died the year before the release, it stars Roy Scheider as a versatile film and stage artist whose obsession with work and unhealthy habits cause to spiral into self-destruction.
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.
A month after his death, Verdon fulfilled Fosse's request for his friends to "go out and have dinner on me" by hosting a star-studded, celebrity-filled evening at Tavern on the Green with Verdon, Reinking, Roy Scheider, Ben Vereen, and E. L. Doctorow attending.
Fosse's distinctive style of choreography included turned-in knees and "jazz hands". He is the only person ever to have won Oscar , Emmy , and Tony awards in the same year (1973). He was nominated for four Academy Awards , winning Best Director for Cabaret (1972) and won the Palme D'Or in 1980 for All That Jazz.
In 1979 Gordon appeared in Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical All That Jazz as the teenage version of the film's protagonist Joe Gideon (played by Gordon's Jaws 2 co-star Roy Scheider). Gordon then appeared in two films by Brian De Palma : as a film student in Home Movies (1979) and in the 1980 erotic thriller Dressed to Kill as the son of Angie ...
DENNIS ― Famed choreographer Bob Fosse directed “Pippin” when it first appeared on Broadway 51 years later, Fosse’s distinctive style ― sexy with a touch of dark danger ― is all over ...
In 1998, she co-created, co-directed and co-choreographed the revue Fosse, receiving a Tony Award co-nomination for Best Direction of a Musical. [25] [26] For her work on the West End production of Fosse, Reinking (along with the late Bob Fosse himself) won the 2001 Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer. [27]
She played Aŕlene in the 1976 NBC television movie James Dean. [9] Palmer is known for Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979), [10] in which she played Audrey Paris, a character believed to be modeled on Fosse's wife, Gwen Verdon. [11] Palmer is known now as Linda Posner.