Duke Ellington

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'Duke Ellington' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

L'écume des jours (2013)

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The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America (2012)

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Taglines:

Giants come in all sizes.

Quotes:

Ella Fitzgerald: What Chick did for me can never be repaid. Always thinking of others, always in pain, but no one knew it - he was the kind that comes along once every thousand years.

Helen Oakley Dance: He'd bleed profusely and lose a tremendous amount of blood. But game as anything, he would never quit.

Chick Webb: I can't understand the pain God gave me, I can't understand my sickness, but that's secondary. The main thing is, the Lord gave me the talent to play drums. He gave me some years to play. That's what I wanted to do.

Jazz Seen: The Life and Times of William Claxton (2001)

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Plot
"Jazz Seen" is an exploration of the life of William Claxton, whose photographs turned the world of jazz on its keen and perceptive ear. Various jazz artists, photographers, and actors recount memories they had with Claxton and explore his work, while parts of his life are re-enacted by actors.

Keywords: independent-film, jazz-music, jazz-score, new-york-city

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Documentary

Hoodlum (1997)

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Plot
The film focuses on the war of two gangs in 1930s Harlem for the control of illegal gaming - one headed by black strategic godfather Bumpy Johnson and another by white ruthless hothead Dutch Schultz. Negotiations proposed by white syndicate boss Lucky Luciano never get under way, blood flows and Johnson gets jailed. When Johnson is paroled, he gets the work of enforcer for mighty Stephanie "The Queen" St. Clair. She is also jailed for racketeering and when she leaves she makes him promise "no violence".

Keywords: 1930s, african-american, amazing-grace-hymn, ambush, assassination-attempt, bare-breasts, bare-breasts, based-on-true-story, betrayal, blackmail

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Crime
Drama

Taglines:

Power is measured in enemies.
They had it all. It cost them everything.

Quotes:

Dutch Schultz: I remember the days when you could get a guy hit for 40 bucks.::Mike Salke: We live in inflationary times

Bumpy Johnson: You've been warned. Get ready for your final thrill. It's curtains, Dutch. The jig is up.::Dutch Schultz: You're a dead fuckin' nigger!

Dutch Schultz: What's 235::Bub Hewlett: It means death

Johnny 'Figures' DiPalmero: [referring to a board] The dividing line could conceivably be the 135th Street, running east to west, Lennox Ave running north to south. Mr Schultz would take one territory and Mr Johnson, the other.::Bumpy Johnson: I can't accept any proposals that allows Mr Schultz to continue to operate freely in Harlem. As I've said before I have no quarrel with any of you gentlemen. But if Mr Schultz insists on coming uptown, I have no choice but to make my presence felt... Downtown.::Lucky Luciano: Well, you do realize that such a coarse of action would bring about your demise?::Bumpy Johnson: The Dutchman's been trying to bring about my demise for quite some time.::Lucky Luciano: I'm not Dutch.::Bumpy Johnson: Yeah, you Lucky.::Dutch Schultz: You got nuts the size of watermelons.::Lucky Luciano: Dutch! Enough with the compliments.::Bumpy Johnson: Perhaps you gentlemen to need some more time to consider my proposal.::Dutch Schultz: We ain't gotta consider a fucking thing! [Picks up a green slip] Your days are numbered. Your part of the expression. You're pretty smart for a nigger.::Bumpy Johnson: Yeah so are you.::Dutch Schultz: Ooh that's good-that's good. Insult the man that holds your destiny between his fingers.::Bumpy Johnson: So you got some slips. I beat the wraphands down.::Dutch Schultz: Oh, like the glorious Madam Queen policy? [Tears the green slip as he stands abruptly, then throws it on the table] My judge is gonna send your black ass to fuckin' jail. *Jesus Christ*! [storms out]::Lucky Luciano: [looking at Bumpy] Your move.

The Cotton Club (1984)

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Plot
The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, african-american, band, based-on-novel, biracial, black-american, box-office-flop, controversy, cotton-club-manhattan-new-york-city

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Taglines:

It was the jazz age. It was an era of elegance and violence. The action was gambling. The stakes were life and death.
Where crime lords rub elbows with the rich and famous!
Welcome to The Cotton Club. Where Crime Lords rub elbows with the rich and famous. Where deals are made, lives are traded. And the legends of jazz light up the night.

Quotes:

[a boy runs up to Dixie in the street]::Boy in Street: Vincent's been telling everyone around here that you saved the Dutchman's ass!

Flynn: Blow that bughouse bastard to kingdom come!

Vera: You've got about as much style as a bowl of turnips.

Owney: In the next room, gentlemen, is the finest food, drink and pussy in New York at a price.

Owney: Someone oughta take out your brain and pickle it!

Dixie: I'm surprised at you! Don't you feel anything for Mr. Flynn at all? He's dead!

Vera: Mr. Flynn was a bootlegger. That's how they live in this world. Maybe one day you'll wise up, sap!

Vera: If he came in here right now, he'd kill us both.::Dixie: Forget about him.::Vera: Who?

[Frenchy has just broken Owney's watch]::Frenchy: You cheap son of a bitch! You only offered $500 for me?::Owney: What?::Frenchy: If you were kidnapped, I wouldn't offer more than that for you!::Owney: $500?::Frenchy: That's what I heard!::Owney: 50 grand! I paid 50 grand! They only wanted 35 but I gave 50 not to hurt you. $500. I would've given 500,000 for you. I been worried sick about you. Look at what you done to my fuckin' watch.::Frenchy: 50 grand?::Owney: Yeah.::[Frenchy hands Owney a box that Owney opens]::Owney: What's this? A platinum watch. (smiling) You asshole.

Vera: I was born looking 18.::Dixie: I can save you.::Vera: No, you can't.

Symphony in Swing (1949)

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Plot
A Universal "Name Band Musical" with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra opening with "Take the 'A' Train", followed by "Suddenly It Jumped" which serves as accompaniment for the dancing of the Edwards Sisters. Other numbers are; "Turquoise Cloud," "Knock Me a Kiss," and "Frankie and Johnny."

Keywords: 1940s, bandstand, dancer, dancing, musician, orchestra, orchestra-leader, singer, singing, sister-sister-relationship

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Music
Short

Birth of the Blues (1941)

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Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.

Keywords: african-american, cultural-conflict, jazz, movie-theater, murder, musician, new-orleans-louisiana, scat-singing

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Music

Taglines:

Strike Up The Band ! * Here comes happiness . . . in a merry medley of romance . . . and rhythm !

The Hit Parade (1937)

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Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again ?

Keywords: digit-in-title, number-in-title, radio, year-in-title

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Musical

Black and Tan (1929)

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Plot
Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band. Sure enough, she collapses on stage...

Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-name-with-character, actress-shares-last-name-with-character, african-american, bootleg-booze, cigarette-smoking, color-in-title, composer, cotton-club

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Ellington, Duke Filmography

An Honest Buck
2013, role: composer
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
Michel Petrucciani
2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way
2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
Jazz Giants of the 20th Century
2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
Reminiscing in Tempo
2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection
2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
Duke Ellington Swinging at His Best
2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
Harlem Renaissance
2004, role: actor
Improvisation
2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
My Kinda People
2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
Rhapsody in Black
2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
Cinerama Adventure
2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
It's Black Entertainment
2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
Hollywood Rhythm Vol. 1: The Best of Jazz and Blues
2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
New York: A Documentary Film
1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Century: America's Time
1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Fifties
1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
Victor Borges Tivoli 150 år
1993, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
American Justice: Target - Mafia
1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame
1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
That's Black Entertainment
1990, role: actor , character name: Himself
Memories of Duke
1980, role: actor , character name: Himself
Black Shadows on the Silver Screen
1975, role: actor , character name: Himself
On the Road with Duke Ellington
1974, role: actor , character name: Himself
3. November 1973
1973, role: actor , character name: Himself
Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly
1973, role: actor , character name: Himself
Timex All Star Swing Festival
1972, role: actor , character name: Himself
Black Music in America: From Then Till Now
1971, role: actor , character name: Himself
...And Beautiful II
1970, role: actor , character name: Himself - Pianist
Change of Mind
1969, role: composer
Newport Jazz Festival
1968, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Barbara McNair and Duke Ellington Special
1968, role: actor , character name: Himself - Pianist
The Strolling '20s
1966, role: actor , character name: Himself
Assault on a Queen
1966, role: composer
Freedom Spectacular
1964, role: actor , character name: Himself
Paris Blues
1961, role: composer
Schlager-Raketen
1960, role: actor , character name: Himself
Anatomy of a Murder
1959, role: composer
Anatomy of a Murder
1959, role: actor , character name: Pie Eye
Holiday
1957, role: composer
Jazz Ball
1956, role: actor , character name: Himself
Rock 'n' Roll Revue
1955, role: actor , character name: Himself
Sophisticated Lady
1952, role: actor , character name: Himself
Solitude
1952, role: actor , character name: Himself
Mood Indigo
1952, role: actor , character name: Himself
Caravan
1952, role: actor , character name: Himself
V.I.P.'s Boogie
1951, role: actor , character name: Himself