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Gregory Porter is a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actor. His debut album, Water, released in 2010 via Motéma Music, was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. He was also a member of the original Broadway cast of It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues. His sophomore album, Be Good, which contains many of Porter's compositions, was released on February 14th, 2012, and garnered critical acclaim for both his distinctive singing and his compositions, such as "Be Good (Lion's Song), "Real Good Hands", and "On My Way To Harlem".
Porter was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Bakersfield, California, where his mother was a minister. He attended San Diego State University on a football scholarship until a shoulder injury sidelined him permanently. Performing in local jazz clubs, Porter met saxophonist, pianist, and composer Kamau Kenyatta, whose mentoring played an integral role in Porter's career trajectory and professional development. Kenyatta introduced Gregory to flautist Hubert Laws who, upon hearing Porter singing along to Charlie Chaplin's "Smile", chose to include a bonus track featuring Porter's vocals on his Hubert Laws' Remembers the Unforgettable Nat King Cole (1998). Eloise Laws, Hubert's sister, happened to be visiting the studio, and helped get Porter cast in one of the leading roles in a new musical, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, which premiered at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts before moving to Off-Broadway and ultimately Broadway, in spite of previously having appeared in only one other theatrical work, Avenue X.
Actors: Ruba Nadda (director), Cynthia Amsden (actress), Cynthia Amsden (miscellaneous crew), Daniel Iron (producer), Ruba Nadda (writer), Elena Anaya (actress), Christine Vachon (producer), Daniel Iron (actor), Tom McCamus (actor), Patricia Clarkson (actress), David Collins (producer), Donna Gardon (miscellaneous crew), Niall Byrne (composer), Doug Gillespie (miscellaneous crew), Alexander Siddig (actor),
Plot: In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.
Keywords: adultery, airport, aleppo-syria, alexandria-egypt, american-abroad, american-embassy, apple, apple-computer, arabic, arabic-musicActors: Balthazar Getty (actor), Tim Curry (actor), Brian Tyler (composer), Olivia Williams (actress), Bruce Comtois (miscellaneous crew), Dan Mirvish (miscellaneous crew), Octavia Spencer (actress), Forest Whitaker (actor), George Lazenby (actor), Dennis Stuart Murphy (producer), Ronald J. Levin (miscellaneous crew), Shawn David Thompson (writer), Shawn David Thompson (actor), Cynthia Gates Fujikawa (miscellaneous crew), Paul Rachman (director),
Plot: A group of best friends and amateur thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dealer. After the thieves botch the delivery of the objet d'art, the art dealer forces them to 'find' $1 million by the end of the week or face certain death. The desperate friends concoct a plan whereby each of them takes out a $1 million life insurance policy on themselves. Consequently, if one of the friends die, the others will collect on the policy and pay off the dangerous art dealer. The thieves then enter into a lethal lottery to choose who will be the victim and who will be the killer.
Keywords: accidental-killing, acting-musician, argentina, art-theft, bar, bathtub, beer-drinking, betrayal, black-market, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationshipActors: Dabbs Greer (actor), Wilbur Mack (actor), Jack Lomas (actor), Paul Bradley (actor), John Indrisano (actor), William Bailey (actor), Walter Woolf King (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Fred Graham (actor), James Conaty (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Paul Maxey (actor), Victor Mature (actor),
Plot: When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce about how the two met and married.
Keywords: automat, divorce, gossip, lingerie-slip, slit-skirtActors: Lester Sharpe (actor), Pedro Regas (actor), Mikhail Rasumny (actor), Joe Ploski (actor), Gregg Martell (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), 'Snub' Pollard (actor), Dudley Dickerson (actor), Maurice Marsac (actor), Walter Woolf King (actor), Steven Geray (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Bert Stevens (actor), Bert Stevens (actor),
Genres: Musical,Actors: Frank Hagney (actor), Bobby Hale (actor), Edmund Breon (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Matthew Boulton (actor), Norman Ainsley (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Edward Cooper (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Nils Asther (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Edward Fielding (actor), Forrester Harvey (actor),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Cactus Mack (actor), Frank Marlowe (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Sam Ash (actor), George Chandler (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Hugh Farr (actor), Karl Farr (actor), Shug Fisher (actor), Sam Flint (actor), George 'Gabby' Hayes (actor), Si Jenks (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Arthur Loft (actor), Bob Nolan (actor),
Plot: Jim Gardner, hoping to acquire the Pine Valley section around Cherokee City, Oklahoma, for the oil rights, instigates and renews an old time feud between the Lanes and the Whittakers as each faily own half the valley. Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers take up the fight against Gardner and manage to settle the Lane-Whittaker feud.
Keywords: b-movie, b-western, brother-brother-relationship, chauffeur, crook, dispute, double-cross, family-feud, feud, gangActors: Erville Alderson (actor), Harry A. Bailey (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Edgar Buchanan (actor), Frank Craven (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Jimmie Dodd (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Richard Fiske (actor), Joel Friedkin (actor), Ned Glass (actor), William Gould (actor), Ernie Adams (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jed Prouty (actor), Ralph McCullough (actor), Howard M. Mitchell (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Lee Bowman (actor), A.S. 'Pop' Byron (actor), John 'Skins' Miller (actor), Robert Cummings (actor), James Carlisle (actor), C. Henry Gordon (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), Al Hill (actor), Buster Crabbe (actor), James Craig (actor), James Quinn (actor),
Plot: Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California, and is hiding in the train-compartment of film-writer Eddie Rollyn. Rollyn is working on a story for film-star Helga Roma, who is also aboard the train with her manager, Steve Clayson. Thinking there is a story in Sophie's flight, Rollyn agrees to help her out and hide her from the police if she will help him with his film story. NYC Detective Archie Banks is aboard the train guarding the Sultan of Padaya, owner of a precious gem called "Star of the World." Archie gets the Sultan's consent to allow Miss Roma to wear the gem in a film, feeling that the publicity will entice Sophie out of retirement to steal the stone, and he can get some publicity himself by capturing her in the attempt. But Crayson steals the jewel and tries to escape with it, but is captured by Rollyn. Clayson escapes and finds Sophie. He tells her that Rollyn is an ex-thief, and she must help him steal the diamond again, or he will expose Rollyn and ruin his career.
Keywords: 1930s, actress, alley, archive-footage, b-movie, based-on-book, bedroom, blackmail, california, character-name-in-titleActors: Robert Homans (actor), J. Farrell MacDonald (actor), Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian (actor), Matthew Betz (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), Billy Dooley (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Dwight Frye (actor), Claude Gillingwater (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Charles R. Moore (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Carl Laemmle (miscellaneous crew), Spottiswoode Aitken (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), Sidney De Gray (actor), Joseph W. Girard (actor), Stuart Paton (director), Ernie Adams (actor), Herbert Rawlinson (actor), Dale Fuller (actress), Lillian Rich (actress), George C. Hull (writer), Louis Tracy (writer), Amelio Mendez (actor),
Genres: Mystery,