Birth date	September 22, 1909
Birth place	Prairie Hill, Texas
Death date	January 03, 1989
Death place	Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Film actress }}

Nell O'Day (September 22, 1909 – January 3, 1989) was an accomplished equestrian and B-movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Prairie Hill, Texas, O'Day was a good looking woman in her youth, and had her first screen roles in the 1920s as a teenager.

Her first starring role was in 1932 when she starred in ''Rackety Rax'' opposite Victor McLaglen and Greta Nissan. From 1933 through 1940 she would star in nineteen films, with only a small number of those being western films. Starting in 1941 she began starring in roles placing her as the heroine in westerns, often opposite Johnny Mack Brown, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Max Terhune, and John 'Dusty' King.

In 1942 she starred as the heroine in several cliffhanger episodes of ''Perils of the Royal Mounted''. In 1943, under contract with Republic Pictures, she began starring in the serial films the ''Three Mesquiteers'', alongside Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmie Dodd. Her last starring role was in 1943, in the film ''Boss of the Rawhide'', opposite Dave O'Brien. She had one more role, in 1946 when she starred in ''The Story of Kenneth W. Randall M.D.'', but concentrated mostly on writing screenplays and stage plays.

She spent the rest of her life writing for stage and screen. She died of a heart attack on January 3, 1989, in Los Angeles, California.

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"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.

The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.

History

The term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to the late 19th Century. In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.

It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me", William Burroughs's novel ''Naked Lunch'', and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.

The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in ''U.S. News and World Report'', had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine ''Easyriders'' which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."

In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema, featuring particularly prominently as a recurring motif in the 2003 film School of Rock.

Use as praise

The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."

In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.

See also

Absentee landlord

Big Brother (''Nineteen Eighty-Four'')

New World Order (conspiracy theory)

Ruling class

The Establishment

Power elite

Corrections officer

YTMND

Notes

References

Lighter, J.E. (Ed.). (1997). ''Random House Dictionary of American Slang''. New York: Random House.

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birth name	Anita Belle Colton
alias	"The Jezebel of Jazz"
birth date	October 18, 1919
Birth place	Chicago, Illinois, United States
death date	November 23, 2006
Death place	Los Angeles, California, United States
genre	Vocal jazz
occupation	Singer
years active	1934 – 2006
label	Verve, Kayo Stereophonic
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Anita O'Day (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer.

Born Anita Belle Colton, O'Day was admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to pander to any female stereotype, O'Day presented herself as a "hip" jazz musician, wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown. She changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig Latin for "dough," slang for money.

Style

O'Day, along with Mel Tormé, is often grouped with the West Coast cool school of jazz. Like Tormé, O'Day had some training in jazz drums (courtesy of her first husband Don Carter); her longest musical collaboration was with jazz drummer John Poole. While maintaining a central core of hard swing, O'Day's skills in improvisation of rhythm and melody put her squarely among the pioneers of bebop.

She cited Martha Raye as the primary influence on her vocal style, although she also expressed admiration for Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday.

O'Day always maintained that the accidental excision of her uvula during a childhood tonsillectomy left her incapable of vibrato, and unable to maintain long phrases. That botched operation, she claimed, forced her to develop a more percussive style based on short notes and rhythmic drive. However, when she was in good voice she could stretch long notes with strong crescendos and a telescoping vibrato, e.g. her live version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, captured in Bert Stern's film ''Jazz on a Summer's Day''.

O'Day's backbeat-based singing style was strongly influential on many other female singers of the late swing and bebop eras, including June Christy, Chris Connor and Doris Day.

O'Day's long-term problems with heroin addiction and alcoholism and her often erratic behavior related to those problems earned her the nickname "The Jezebel of Jazz".

Early career

Born into a broken home in Chicago, O'Day took the first chance to leave home when, at age 14, she became a contestant in the popular Walk-a-thons as a dancer. She toured with the Walk-a-thons circuits for two years, occasionally being called upon to sing. In 1934, she began touring the Midwest as a marathon dance contestant and singing "The Lady in Red" for tips.

In 1936, she left the endurance contests, determined to become a professional singer. She started out as a chorus girl in such Uptown venues as the Celebrity Club and the Vanity Fair, then found work as a singer and waitress at the Ball of Fire, the Vialago, and the Planet Mars. At the Vialago, O'Day met the drummer Don Carter, who introduced her to music theory and whom she married in 1937. Her first big break came in 1938 when ''Down Beat'' editor Carl Cons hired her to work at his new club at 222 North State Street, the Off-Beat, which quickly became a popular hangout for musicians. Also performing at the Off-Beat was the Max Miller Quartet, which backed O'Day for the first 10 days of her stay there.

While performing at the Off Beat, she met Gene Krupa, who promised to call her if Irene Daye, his current vocalist, left his band. In 1939 she was hired as vocalist for Miller's Quartet, which had a stay at the Three Deuces club in Chicago.

Work with Krupa, Herman, and Kenton

The call from Krupa came in early 1941. Of the 34 sides she recorded with Krupa, it was "Let Me Off Uptown", a novelty duet with Roy Eldridge, that became her first big hit. That year, ''Down Beat'' named O'Day "New Star of the Year". In 1942, she appeared with the Krupa band in two "soundies" (short musical films originally made for jukeboxes), singing "Thanks for the Boogie Ride" and "Let Me Off Uptown". The same year ''Down Beat'' magazine readers voted her into the top five big band singers. O'Day came in fourth, with Helen O'Connell first, Helen Forrest second, Billie Holiday third, and Dinah Shore fifth. O'Day married again in 1942, this time to golf pro and jazz fan Carl Hoff.

When Krupa's band broke up after he was arrested for possession of marijuana in 1943, O'Day joined Woody Herman for a month-long gig at the Hollywood Palladium, followed by two weeks at the Orpheum. Unwilling to tour with another big band, she left Herman after the Orpheum engagement and finished out the year as a solo artist. Despite her initial misgivings about the compatibility of their musical styles, she joined Stan Kenton's band in April 1944. During her 11 months with Kenton, O'Day recorded 21 sides, both transcription and commercial, and appeared in a Universal Pictures short ''Artistry in Rhythm'' (1944). "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" became a huge seller and put Kenton's band on the map. She also appeared in one soundie with Kenton, performing "I'm Going Mad for a Pad" and "Tabby the Cat". O'Day later said, "My time with Stanley helped nurture and cultivate my innate sense of chord structure." In 1945 she rejoined Krupa's band and stayed almost a year. The reunion, unfortunately, yielded only 10 sides. After leaving Krupa late in 1946, O'Day once again became a solo artist.

Post-war work

During the late 1940s, she recorded two dozen sides, mostly for small labels. The quality of these singles varies: O'Day was trying to achieve popular success without sacrificing her identity as a jazz singer. Among the more notable recordings from this period are "Hi Ho Trailus Boot Whip", "Key Largo", "How High the Moon", and "Malaguena". O'Day's drug problems began to surface late in 1947, when she and her husband Carl Hoff were arrested for possession of marijuana and sentenced to 90 days in jail. Her career was back on the upswing in September 1948, when she sang with Count Basie at the Royal Roost in New York City, resulting in five airchecks. What secured O'Day's place in the jazz pantheon, however, are the 17 albums she recorded for Norman Granz's Norgran and Verve labels between 1952 and 1962.

Her first album, ''Anita O'Day Sings Jazz'' (reissued as ''The Lady Is a Tramp''), was recorded in 1952 for the newly established Norgran Records (it was also the label's first LP). The album was a critical success and further boosted her popularity. In October 1952 O'Day was again arrested for possession of marijuana, but found not guilty. The following March, she was arrested for possession of heroin. The case dragged on for most of 1953; O'Day was finally sentenced to six months in jail. Not long after her release from jail on February 25, 1954, she began work on her second album, ''Songs by Anita O'Day'' (reissued as ''An Evening with Anita O'Day''). She recorded steadily throughout the 1950s, accompanied by small combos and big bands. In person, O'Day was generally backed by a trio which included John Poole, the drummer with whom she would work for the next 40 years. As a live performer O'Day also began performing in festivals and concerts with such musicians as Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, George Shearing, Cal Tjader, and Thelonious Monk. She appeared in the documentary ''Jazz on a Summer's Day'', filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival which increased her popularity. She admitted later that she was probably high on heroin during the concert. She also said that it was the best day of her life in that hers was the star performance of the festival and she made the cover of national magazines for it.

The following year O'Day made a cameo appearance in ''The Gene Krupa Story'', singing "Memories of You". Late in 1959, she toured Europe with Benny Goodman to great personal acclaim. O'Day later wrote in her 1981 autobiography that when Goodman's attempts to upstage her failed to diminish the audience's enthusiasm, he cut all but two of her numbers from the show.

O'Day went back to touring as a solo artist and appeared on such TV specials as the ''Timex All-Star Jazz Show'' and ''The Swingin' Years'' hosted by Ronald Reagan. She recorded infrequently after the expiration of her Verve contract in 1962 and her career seemed over when she nearly died of a heroin overdose in 1968. After kicking the habit, she made a comeback at the 1970 Berlin Jazz Festival. She also appeared in the films ''Zigzag''a.k.a. ''False Witness'' with George Kennedy (1970) and ''The Outfit'' (1974) with Robert Duvall. She resumed making live and studio albums under the new management of Alan Eichler, many recorded in Japan, and several were released on her own label, Emily Records.

Memoir and later life

O'Day spoke candidly about her drug addiction in her 1981 memoir ''High Times, Hard Times'', which led to a string of TV appearances on ''60 Minutes'', ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'', ''The Today Show'' with Bryant Gumbel, ''The Dick Cavett Show'', ''Over Easy'' with Hugh Downs, ''The Tomorrow Show'' with Tom Snyder, and several others. She also toured Europe, performed a 50th Anniversary Concert at Carnegie Hall and headlined New York's JVC Jazz Festival.

In 2005, her version of the standard "Sing, Sing, Sing" was remixed by RSL and was included in the compilation album ''Verve Remixed 3''. The following year, she released ''Indestructible!'', her first album in 13 years.

One of her best-known late-career audio performances "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby", which opens the film ''Shortbus'' (2006) by John Cameron Mitchell.

A feature-length documentary, ''Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer'', directed by Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 30, 2007.

In November 2006, Robbie Cavolina (her last manager) entered her into a West Hollywood, California convalescent hospital, while she recovered from pneumonia. Two days before her death, she had demanded to be released from the hospital. On Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2006, at age 87, O'Day died in her sleep. The official cause of death was cardiac arrest.

Discography

Filmography

''The Gene Krupa Story'' (1959)

''Zigzag'' (1970)

''The Outfit'' (1973)

''Shortbus'' (2006)

Documentary

''Jazz on a Summer's Day'' (1960)

''Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer'' (2006)

''Anita O'Day - Live at Ronnie Scott's'' (2006)

''Live In Tokyo '63'' (2007)

''Jazz Icons'' (2009)

References

External links

Bio at ''Jazz Profiles''

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name	Johnny Mack Brown
birth date	September 01, 1904
birth place	Dothan, Alabama, U.S.
death date	November 14, 1974
death place	Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
othername	John Mack Brown (original screen name at his career height)
spouse	Cornelia "Connie" Foster (1926–November 14, 1974)
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Johnny Mack Brown (September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974) was an American college football player and film actor originally billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career.

Early life

Born and raised in Dothan, Alabama, Brown was a star of the high school football team, earning a football scholarship to the University of Alabama. Playing the halfback position on his university's Crimson Tide football team, he earned the nickname "The Dothan Antelope" and helped his team to become the 1926 NCAA Division I-A national football champions. In that year's Rose Bowl Game, he earned Most Valuable Player honors after scoring two of his team's three touchdowns in an upset win over the heavily favored Washington Huskies. While at The University of Alabama, Brown became an initiated member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

Film career

His good looks and powerful physique saw him portrayed on Wheaties cereal boxes and in 1927, brought an offer for motion picture screen tests that resulted in a long and successful career in Hollywood. He played silent film star Mary Pickford's love interest in her first talkie, ''Coquette'' (1929), for which Pickford won an Oscar.

He appeared in minor roles until 1930 when he was cast as the star in a Western entitled ''Billy the Kid'' and directed by King Vidor. An early widescreen film (along with Raoul Walsh's ''The Big Trail'' with John Wayne, produced the same year), the movie also features Wallace Beery as Pat Garrett. Brown was billed over Beery, who would become the studio's highest paid actor within the next three years. Also in 1930, Brown played Joan Crawford's love interest in ''Montana Moon''. Brown went on to make several more top-flight movies under the name John Mack Brown, including ''The Secret Six'' (1931) with Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, and Clark Gable, as well as the legendary Lost Generation celebration of alcohol, ''The Last Flight'' (1931), and was being groomed by MGM as a leading man until being abruptly replaced on ''Laughing Sinners'' in 1931, with all his scenes reshot, substituting rising star Clark Gable in his place.

Rechristened "Johnny Mack Brown" in the wake of this extremely serious career downturn, he made exclusively low budget westerns and eventually became one of the screen's top B-movie cowboy stars, making 127 western films during his career, including ''Ride 'Em Cowboy'' with Abbott and Costello. A fan of Mexican music, he showcased the talents of guitarist Francisco Mayorga and The Guadalajara Trio in films like ''Boss of Bullion City'' and ''The Masked Rider''. Brown also starred in four serials for Universal Studios (''Rustlers of Red Dog'', ''Wild West Days'', ''Flaming Frontiers'' and ''The Oregon Trail'') and was a hero to millions of young children at movie theaters and on their television screens.

When the B-Western genre dropped sharply in box office popularity, Johnny Mack Brown went into retirement in 1953. He returned more than ten years later to appear in secondary roles in a few Western films. Altogether, Brown appeared in over 160 movies between 1927 and 1966, as well as a smattering of television shows, in a career spanning almost forty years.

Personal life

Brown was married to Cornelia "Connie" Foster from 1926 to his death in 1974, and they had four children.

Awards

In recognition of his contribution to the motion picture industry, Brown was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6101 Hollywood Blvd. In 1969, Brown was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

Death

Brown died in Woodland Hills, California of heart failure at the age of 70. Brown's cremated remains are interred in an outdoor Columbarium, in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Selected filmography

''Slide, Kelly, Slide'', 1927

''The Fair Co-Ed'', 1927

''Our Dancing Daughters'', 1928

''A Woman of Affairs'', 1928

''The Divine Woman'', 1928

''A Lady of Chance'', 1928

''The Valiant'', 1929

''The Single Standard'', 1929

''Coquette'', 1929

''Billy the Kid'', 1930

''Great Day'', 1930 (incomplete & unreleased)

''Montana Moon'', 1930

''The Last Flight'', 1931

''The Secret Six'', 1931

''The Great Meadow'', 1931

''Fighting with Kit Carson'', 1933 (12-chapter serial)

''Female'', 1933

''Belle of the Nineties'', 1934

''Branded a Coward'', 1935

''The Courageous Avenger'', 1935

''Rustlers of Red Dog'', 1935 (12-chapter serial)

''Rogue of the Range'', 1936

''Desert Phantom'', 1936

''The Crooked Trail'', 1936

''Wild West Days'', 1937 (13-chapter serial)

''Born to the West'', 1937

''Lawless Land'', 1937

''Bar-Z Bad Men'', 1937

''A Lawman Is Born'', 1937

''Flaming Frontiers'', 1938 (15-chapter serial)

''The Oregon Trail'', 1939 (15-chapter serial)

''Boss of Bullion City'', 1940

''Law and Order'', 1940

''Law of the Range'', 1941

''Deep in the Heart of Texas'', 1942

''Ride 'Em Cowboy'', 1942

''The silver Bullet 1942

''Law Men'' 1944

''Gun Smoke'' 1945

''Stampede'', 1949

References

External links

College Football Hall of Fame Official Biography

Johnny Mack Brown at B-Westerns

Photographs and literature

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Banana boat (boat), an unpowered recreational boat

Banana boat (ship), a ship whose primary role is the transportation of bananas as cargo

Banana boat (food), campfire delicacy

"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", a 1956 traditional Jamaican folk song

Banana Boat, a Polish a capella group created in 1994

A dish used to serve the banana split dessert

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A liqueur based cocktail.