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The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.
In 1984 Coppola directed Robert Evans-produced The Cotton Club.
Coppola's nephew, Nicolas Cage, starred in Coppola's film Peggy Sue Got Married and was featured in Rumble Fish and The Cotton Club.
Luisa Stuart, a model who was 18 or 19 at the time, told Summers that she had seen Hoover holding hands with Tolson as they all rode in a limo uptown to the Cotton Club in 1936.
The 1984 film The Cotton Club was the first video to be encoded with Macrovision technology when it was released in 1985.
This marked the first in a series of collaborations between Waits and Coppola, with Waits appearing in cameos in Coppola's movies The Outsiders ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ), and a major role in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
In 1927, King Oliver turned down a regular booking for his group as the house band at Harlem's Cotton Club ; the offer passed to Ellington.
At the Cotton Club, Ellington's group performed all the music for the revues, which mixed comedy, dance numbers, vaudeville, burlesque, music, and illegal alcohol.
In the same year, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn.
While the band's United States audience remained mainly African-American in this period, the Cotton Club had a near-exclusive white clientele and the Ellington orchestra had a huge following overseas, exemplified by the success of their trip to England in 1933 and their 1934 visit to the European mainland.
In 1937, Ellington returned to the Cotton Club which had relocated to the mid-town theater district.
Things improved in 1938 and he met and moved in with Cotton Club employee Beatrice " Evie " Ellis.
Besides recordings his own compositions, Ellington also recorded a handful of current hits, as well as a number of specially written songs by Dorothy Fields-Jimmy McHugh and Fats Waller-Andy Razaf for various Cotton Club Revues.
* 1937: the Cotton Club, all the rage in New York, is put on at the Moulin Rouge ; Ray Ventura and his Collegians also appear.
In similar fashion, he lost the chance of an engagement at New York City's famous Cotton Club when he held out for more money ; young Duke Ellington took the job and subsequently catapulted to fame.
Omaha's rich history in rhythm and blues, and jazz gave rise to a number of influential bands, including Anna Mae Winburn's Cotton Club Boys and Lloyd Hunter's Seranaders.
Later ( October 16, 1930 ), Hampton was recording with Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra, and the studio they were working in happened to have a Deagan model 145 vibraharp.
Unlike the ' whites only ' policy of the Cotton Club, the Savoy Ballroom was integrated, and white and black Americans danced together.
Despite efforts by Borough President Hulan Jack and others to save it, the Savoy and the nearby Cotton Club were demolished for the construction of a housing complex, Bethune Towers / Delano Village.
Gwynne also had roles in the movies Simon, On the Waterfront, So Fine, Disorganized Crime, The Cotton Club, Captains Courageous, The Secret of My Success, Water, Ironweed, Fatal Attraction and The Boy Who Could Fly.
* The Cotton Club ( 1984 ) as Frenchy Demange
In the first, a sophisticated approach to arranging predominated, originally in the work of Don Redman for the Fletcher Henderson band, later in the work of Duke Ellington for his Cotton Club orchestra, and Walter ' Foots ' Thomas for Cab Calloway's, Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra, and Mel Tormé's Mel-Tones.
In 1920, Johnson opened a night club in Harlem ; he sold it three years later to a gangster, Owney Madden, who renamed it the Cotton Club.
Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford.
He made his recording debut with The Quality Serenaders led by Paul Howard, then left for Culver City and drummed for the Les Hite band at Sebastian's Cotton Club.

Cotton and is
It is no coincidence that the Texas Cotton Ginner's Association is meeting here this week for the 46th time in their 52-year history.
Cotton processing equipment is a sizable segment of Dallas business economy.
It receives its name from its soil ( weathered from the weak underlying limestone ), which is black in colour, almost destitute of sand and loam, and rich in limestone and marl formations, especially adapted to the production of cotton ; hence the region is also called the Cotton Belt.
Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.
The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.
The poem appears in what is today called the Beowulf manuscript or Nowell Codex ( British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv ), along with other works.
Cotton Mather's relationship with his well-known father, Increase Mather, is thought by some to have been a strained and difficult one.
Upham shows a balanced and complicated view of Cotton Mather such as this first mention: " One of Cotton Mather's most characteristic productions is the tribute to his venerated master.
In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.
Poole's views have found followers and the revision of Cotton Mather continues, while Calef's book is arguably less well-known.
* Cotton Mather's "~ Resolved ~" is A Puritan Father's Lesson Plan.
The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.
The Cotton Bowl was the longtime home of the annual Cotton Bowl Classic college football bowl game, for which the stadium is named.

Cotton and movie
The mall was used by director Ron Howard to film portions of the movie Cotton Candy in 1978.
He also had a role in the 1984 movie The Cotton Club.
After The Cotton Club, Lane dropped out of the movie business and lived with her mother in Georgia.
1922 editorial cartoon by Cyrus Cotton " Cy " Hungerford | Cy Hungerford illustrating the perception that Hays was coming to rescue the movie industry.
It was performed in the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie The Cotton Club by Larry Marshall as Cab Calloway.
She also toured with and recorded for various artists ( such as the Neville Brothers, Bobby Womack and Isaac Hayes ); made short appearances in films ; and contributed songs to different movie soundtracks ( including the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem ).
Parts of the movie were filmed at the Villa of " Cotton King " Karl Wilhelm Scheibler.
Adelaide Hall was loosely portrayed as the nightclub chanteuse in the Francis Ford Coppola 1984 movie The Cotton Club.

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