Film
The Duke Is Tops
Wed, Sep 20, 2017
- 10PM
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RUN TIME: 73min
GENERAL ADMISSION: $15
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September 2017
Wednesday September 20, 2017
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2017
series Lena Horne 100
Directed by William Nolte | 1938
With Ralph Cooper, Lena Horne, Laurence Criner
This vivacious jazz musical is one of the finest examples of the so-called race movies produced for black audiences in the 1930s. A 20-year-old Horne makes her film debut as the star attraction of a show produced by a small-time promoter (Cooper, founder and MC of the Apollo Theater’s famed Amateur Nights). She gets her big break—or so it seems—when she’s signed by a New York agent.
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