Film
The Duke is Tops
Seniors Only
Fri, Feb 17, 2017
- 10AM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 1h 13min
This event is for senior citizens 65 and older and is not open to the general public. To reserve movie tickets please contact Community Affairs at 718.636.4122 or CommunityAffairs@BAM.org.
Free
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February 2017
Friday February 17, 2017
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Part of
Community Programs
series Senior Cinema 2017
Directed by Ralph Cooper, William L. Nolte | 1938
With Ralph Cooper, Lena Horne and Laurence Criner
“One of the most important movies on race.”
—TIME
A 21-year-old Lena Horne lights up her film debut, a vivacious jazz musical featuring an all-black cast. She plays the star attraction in a show produced by a small-time promoter (Cooper, founder and MC of the Apollo Theater’s famed Amateur Nights), who gets her big break—or so it seems—when she’s signed by a New York agent. The Duke Is Tops is, above all, a showcase for a number of the era’s most talented black entertainers, including the singing group Cats and the Fiddle and dancer Marie Bryant.