The Cotton Club [1984 film] (1984)

by Francis Ford Coppola

Other authors: John Barry (Composer), Nicolas Cage, Richard Gere, Fred Gwynne, Gregory Hines — 3 more, Bob Hoskins, Diane Lane, Gewn Verdon

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In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a pressure-cooker of jilted loves and mob jobs.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Francis Ford Coppola	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Barry, John	Composer	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cage, Nicolas	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gere, Richard	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gwynne, Fred	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hines, Gregory	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hoskins, Bob	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Lane, Diane	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Verdon, Gewn	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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American Zoetrope Films (1984)

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The Cotton Club by James Haskins

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The Cotton Club: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by John Barry

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The Cotton Club [1984 film]

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1984

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Michael "Dixie" Dwyer

Delbert "Sandman" Williams

Lila Rose Oliver

Vera Cicero

Bumpy Rhodes (pastiche of Bumpy Johnson)

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This is the movie; do not combine with the screenplay or the book.
Suggested by James Haskins' pictorial history The Cotton Club.

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In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a pressure-cooker of jilted loves and mob jobs.

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