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Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He was also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings.
Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists", Shaw led one of America's most popular big bands of the late 1930s and early '40s. Their signature song, a 1938 version of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine", was a wildly successful single and one of the era's defining recordings. Musically restless, Shaw was also an early proponent of Third Stream, which blended classical and jazz, and recorded some small-group sessions that flirted with be-bop before retiring from music in 1954.
Born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky in New York City, Shaw grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, where, according to his autobiography his natural introversion was deepened by local antisemitism. Shaw began learning the saxophone when he was 13 years old, and by the age of 16, he switched to the clarinet and left home to tour with a band. Returning to New York, he became a session musician through the early 1930s. From 1925 until 1936, Shaw performed with many bands and orchestras, including those of Johnny Caverello and Austin Wylie. In 1929 and 1930 he played with Irving Aaronson's Commanders, where he was exposed to symphonic music, which he would later incorporate in his arrangements.
Actors: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (actor), Ella Fitzgerald (actress), Janet Jackson (actress), Tyne Daly (actress), Charlie Watts (actor), Duke Ellington (actor), Ron Perlman (actor), Andy Garcia (actor), Dizzy Gillespie (actor), Danny Glover (actor), Jeff Goldblum (actor), Bill Cosby (actor), Billy Crystal (actor), Mickey Cottrell (miscellaneous crew), John Legend (actor),
Genres: Biography, Documentary,Actors: Jim Norton (actor), Jim Florentine (actor), Rich Vos (actor), Michael DeNigris (actor), Johnny Grasso (actor), Steven O'Connell (director), Eric McMahon (actor), Steven O'Connell (actor), Steven O'Connell (actor), Steven O'Connell (writer), Drew LaFrennie (actor), Carie Karavas (actress), Mary Corrigan (producer), Frank Neuwirth (producer), Stephen Paul Garsh (actor),
Plot: All Miller Davis wanted was to own a comic book store. He partnered with his close friends, Artie Shaw and Brian "Diesel" Bishop. But now those dreams are over because of a shady real estate agent who stole their down payment. They soon agree to scrap the plans for a comic book store and decide to open a strip club instead. They find funding via a very unorthodox method: stealing. They get wind Action Comics #1 (the first appearance of Superman) is for sale at a local comic book shop... and is fetching $150,000 in cash. Nice seed money for a strip club, isn't it? Well, the boys think so and that's where the chaos begins. How does it end? With a few beers, bikers, a stripper, the cops, an irate father... did we mention a stripper?
Keywords: beer, comic, gun, heist, hero, independent-film, superheroActors: Judy Davis (actress), Philip Williams (actor), Al Waxman (actor), Bruce McFee (actor), Aron Tager (actor), John Stocker (actor), Hugh Laurie (actor), Daniel Kash (actor), Adrian Hough (actor), Aidan Devine (actor), Michael Rhoades (actor), Victor Garber (actor), William Holden (actor), Jayne Eastwood (actress), Rosemary Dunsmore (actress),
Plot: The movie starts off at the beginning of Judy Garland's life singing when she was two years old. It jumps to when she was 12 and was signed by MGM and later when her father dies. The movie tells about her early struggles with MGM and with the addiction to barbiturates. It then jumps to the marriage to Vincette Minelli and the struggles with that, and leads into the rest of the movie and her marriages to Sid Luft, Mark Herron, and Mickey Deans and ends when she dies in 1969
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actress, alcoholism, amphetamine, award, based-on-autobiography, camera-shot-of-feet, carnegie-hall-manhattan-new-york-city, character-name-in-title, child-starActors: Gordon De Main (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Burgess Meredith (actor), Charles R. Moore (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Frank Melton (actor), Ben Hall (actor), Charles Butterworth (actor), Fred Astaire (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Hermes Pan (actor), Spec O'Donnell (actor),
Plot: Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie Shaw hires competent manager Ellen away from their college band. The two trumpet players scheme to get into Shaw's outfit themselves, each trying to trump the other's plays.
Keywords: audition, bandleader, big-band, boater-hat, clarinet, clarinet-player, climbing-through-a-window, collection-agency, college, college-campusActors: Walter Kingsford (actor), Roscoe Karns (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), John Daheim (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Leon Errol (actor), Lee Bowman (actor), King Baggot (actor), Rand Brooks (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Richard Carlson (actor), Jack Chapin (actor), Chester Clute (actor), William Lally (actor),
Plot: Right before the dancing Tobius' ought to film a new production, his wife tells Freddy Tobius that she's pregnant. So the producer desperately has to seek a replacement and starts a countrywide competition among all college girls. However the contest is bogus: young dancer Patty Marlow is sent to a little college in the Midwest. Only Pug, a college reporter, suspects something.
Keywords: college, college-life, contest, dance, dancer, deception, editor, father-daughter-relationship, fraud, impersonationWhile tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But when I do, I don't follow through
Cause my heart belongs to Daddy
If I invite a boy some night
To dine on my fine food and haddie
I just adore, his asking for more
But my heart belongs to Daddy
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
So I simply couldn't be bad
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, DAAAAD
So I want to warn you laddie
Though I know that you're perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to Daddy
Cause my Daddy, he treats it so well
While tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But when I do, I don't follow through
Cause my heart belongs to Daddy
If I invite a boy some night
To cook up some hot enchilada
Though Spanish rice is all very nice
My heart belongs to Daddy
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
So I simply couldn't be bad
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, DAAAAD
So I want to warn you laddie
Though I know that you're perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to Daddy