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The Cotton Club remembered
- Title
- The Cotton Club remembered [videorecording]
- Publication
- c1985.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | VHS | Use in library | *MGZIA 4-410 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (60 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Shown performing live at the Ritz Hotel, London and in interviews are Cab Calloway, Doc Cheatham, Chuck Green, Adelaide Hall, Max Roach, and the Nicholas Brothers.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally produced for the BBC in 1985 by Ian Squires with title, The Cotton Club comes to the Ritz. Telecast on WNET/13, New York, Great performances series on February 7, 1986. Narration: Ed Williams.
- Shown in film clips: The Nicholas Brothers in The great American broadcast (1941) and Orchestra wives (1942); Duke Ellington with dancing girls in Check and double check (1930); Bill Robinson in Hooray for love (1935); and Cab Calloway dancing and singing in Cab Calloway's Hi-de-ho (1934).
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-410
- OCLC
- NYPY867019284-F
- Title
- The Cotton Club remembered [videorecording]
- Imprint
- c1985.
- Local Subject
- Television. The Cotton Club remembered.Television. Great performances.
- Added Author
- Green, Chuck. Performer. IntervieweeRobinson, Bill, 1878-1949, performer.Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994, performer.Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994, interviewee.Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974, composer.Hall, Adelaide, performer.Hall, Adelaide, interviewee.Squires, Ian. ProducerNicholas Brothers.Cotton Club.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-410