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House of Strangers is a 1949 American black-and-white drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, and Richard Conte. [2][3] The screenplay by Philip Yordan and Mankiewicz (who chose to go uncredited) is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman 's novel I'll Never Go There Any More, the others being the Spencer Tracy western Broken Lance ...
This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926 and 1929. [ 1 ] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone, as well as sound on disc formats like Vitaphone for instance. This list includes film ...
Blazing Saddles. Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist [4][5] Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman. [6] The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
" The House of the Rising Sun " is an American traditional folk song, sometimes called " Rising Sun Blues ". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans. Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band The Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles ...
New Orleans is a 1947 American musical romance film starring Arturo de Córdova and Dorothy Patrick, and directed by Arthur Lubin. [1] Though it features a rather conventional plot, the film is noteworthy both for casting jazz legends Billie Holiday as a singing maid romantically involved with bandleader Louis Armstrong, and extensive playing of New Orleans-style Dixieland jazz: over twenty ...
Bing's recording of "Swinging on a Star" plays a major part in the plot. Bruce Willis as the Hudson Hawk of the title plans to steal a Leonardo da Vinci from a New York auction house. He estimates the heist will take the length of time it takes to sing "Swinging on a Star".
Pages in category "Jazz films" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Keyon Harrold was born and raised in Ferguson, Missouri, United States, one of 16 children in a family of musicians. [1] His grandfather was a former police officer who founded The Memorial Lancers Drum and Bugle Corps. [2] Harrold graduated from the School of Jazz at The New School.