Jazzed
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-1-9859-0455-2 (ISBN)
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At the forefront of Broadway innovation, Cole worked on shows like The Ziegfeld Follies (1943), Kismet (1953), and Man of La Mancha (1965). But his greater renown came as a film choreographer, with quintessential contributions to Gilda (1945), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), Les Girls (1957), Some Like It Hot (1959), and Let's Make Love (1960). In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Cole shepherded two non-dancing stars, Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, through an array of eye-catching production numbers. His pinnacle in Gentlemen, "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," catapulted Monroe to superstardom. Cole also collaborated with Gwen Verdon, Mitzi Gaynor, Rita Hayworth, and Chita Rivera. He influenced Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Gene Kelly, and Michael Bennett. Yet Cole's impact on American dance has long been overlooked.
With lucid prose and unmatched research pulled from film and art archives, public events, memoirs, and interviews, Jazzed takes readers on a journey through Cole's professional and personal transitions. Author Debra Levine not only focuses on Cole's choreography career at MGM, Columbia Pictures, and Twentieth Century-Fox but also uncovers details of his obsessive training, struggle with depression and alcoholism, proclivity for violence, and encounters with homophobia as a gay man. Levine winnows fact from fiction to deliver an insightful, entertaining biography of a dance renegade whose legacy persists as theatrical jazz dance remains popular in nightclubs, music videos, and musicals today.
Debra Levine is a Hollywood-fascinated dance critic whose discovery of Jack Cole turned her aesthetic world on its head. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Dance Magazine, Huffington Post, and more. She is the founder of the fine arts blog artsmeme. Levine has produced, curated, and hosted screening and interview events at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and others.
Preface_x000D_
Barefoot Beginnings_x000D_
Finding Fast Footing_x000D_
Dancing on Top of the World_x000D_
Mafia Made Man_x000D_
Cultural Voyager_x000D_
Dancing Americana_x000D_
Enter the Dancing Movie Goddess_x000D_
Harry Told Everybody to Leave Me Alone_x000D_
Resident Dance Company_x000D_
Noir Choreographer_x000D_
GILDA_x000D_
Paradise Lost_x000D_
Sing, Sing, Sing_x000D_
Nightclub Headliner_x000D_
Art or Money_x000D_
Alive & Kicking_x000D_
In Zanuck's Kingdom_x000D_
Lydia Bailey Meets the Merry Widow_x000D_
Cruising the Caribbean_x000D_
Dazzling Diamonds_x000D_
Jack Cole Cares_x000D_
On Fire in the Fifties_x000D_
At MGM, with Ladies_x000D_
Kismet, on Stage & Screen_x000D_
Let's Make Love (or) Let's Not and Say We Did_x000D_
Dawn of a Decade_x000D_
Jack Cole's Unswinging Sixties_x000D_
Burning through Beirut, Birmingham, and Bomarzo_x000D_
On Kew Drive_x000D_
Death of a Dance Renegade_x000D_
Acknowledgments_x000D_
Bibliography_x000D_
Notes_x000D_
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.8.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 59 b&w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Lexington |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9859-0455-1 / 1985904551 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9859-0455-2 / 9781985904552 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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