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The Cotton Club was a famous Harlem nightclub. This is the story of the people who visited this club as well as the people who ran it, and the film is generously peppered with the jazz music that made the Cotton Club so renowned in the 1920s and 1930s.
The parallel and occasionally intersecting stories of Sandman Williams and Michael "Dixie" Dwyer, starting in 1928; the intersections mainly happen at the Cotton Club, a Harlem jazz club where the performers, like Sandman who has a dance routine with his brother Clay, are exclusively black and the patrons, like Dixie--personal musician (jazz cornetist and pianist) to married gangster Dutch Schultz whom he often accompanies to the club--are exclusively white. Sandmans focus on advancing his and Clays dance career together ends up taking a back seat and threatens their relationship altogether when Sandman meets and falls in love with club singer Lila Rose Oliver, a biracial woman with Broadway aspirations who can pass for either black or white depending on the situation but doesnt fit wholly into either world. Dixie fell into Dutchs employ by chance and finds getting out difficult; he cant stomach the senseless killing around--and often initiated by--Dutch. Dixie gets into a passionate relationship with singer Vera Cicero, Dutchs girl-on-the-side who, unlike Dixie, can stomach being with Dutch to achieve her goal of owning her own club. When the clubs owner, Owney Madden--a gangster himself, with a heart of gold--offers Dixie a way out, Dixie tries to convince Vera that the life he can offer her is better than what she has with Dutch, and in the process keep from being hunted down by Dutch in what he would see as an act of betrayal.
Richard Gere
Dixie Dwyer
Gregory Hines
Sandman Williams
Diane Lane
Vera Cicero
Lonette McKee
Lila Rose Oliver
Bob Hoskins
Owney Madden
James Remar
Dutch Schultz
Nicolas Cage
Vincent Dwyer
Allen Garfield
Abbadabba Berman
Fred Gwynne
Frenchy Demange
Gwen Verdon
Tish Dwyer
Lisa Jane Persky
Frances Flegenheimer
Maurice Hines
Clay Williams
Julian Beck
Sol Weinstein
Novella Nelson
Madame St. Clair
Laurence Fishburne
Bumpy Rhodes
John P. Ryan
Joe Flynn
Tom Waits
Irving Stark
Ron Karabatsos
Mike Best
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