The Cool World (film), the Glossary
The Cool World is a 1963 feature film directed by Shirley Clarke about African-American life in the Royal Pythons, a youth gang in Harlem.[1]
Table of Contents
27 relations: African Americans, Amy Taubin, Antonio Fargas, Baird Bryant, Calvin Lockhart, Carl Lee (actor), Cinematography, Clarence Williams III, Dizzy Gillespie, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Frederick Wiseman, Gloria Foster, Harlem, Hilda Simms, James Earl Jones, Library of Congress, List of American films of 1963, List of hood films, Mal Waldron, Milestone Films, National Film Registry, Raymond St. Jacques, Robert Rossen, Semidocumentary, Shirley Clarke, The Cool World (soundtrack), Warren Miller (author).
- Films directed by Shirley Clarke
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Amy Taubin
Amy Taubin (born September 10, 1938) is an American author and film critic.
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Antonio Fargas
Antonio Fargas is an American actor known for his roles in 1970s blaxploitation and comedy movies, as well as his portrayal as Huggy Bear in the 1970s TV series Starsky & Hutch.
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Baird Bryant
Wenzell Baird Bryant (December 12, 1927 – November 13, 2008) was an American filmmaker.
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Calvin Lockhart
Calvin Lockhart (born Bert McClossy Cooper; October 18, 1934March 29, 2007) was a Bahamian–American stage and film actor.
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Carl Lee (actor)
Carl Lee (born Carl Vincent Canegata; November 22, 1926 – April 17, 1986) was an American actor.
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Cinematography
Cinematography is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.
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Clarence Williams III
Clarence Williams III (August 21, 1939 – June 4, 2021) was an American actor.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer.
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Eugene O'Neill Theatre
The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, previously the Forrest Theatre and the Coronet Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 230 West 49th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director.
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Gloria Foster
Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933 – September 29, 2001) was an American actress.
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Harlem
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York City.
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Hilda Simms
Hilda Simms (Moses; April 15, 1918 – February 6, 1994) was an American stage actress, best known for her starring role on Broadway in Anna Lucasta.
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James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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List of American films of 1963
A list of American films released in 1963.
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List of hood films
This is a list of hood films.
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Mal Waldron
Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
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Milestone Films
Milestone Film and Video is an independent film distribution company, founded in 1990 in the United States by Dennis Doros and Amy Heller.
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National Film Registry
The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation, each selected for its historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions since the NFPB's inception in 1988. The Cool World (film) and National Film Registry are United States National Film Registry films.
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Raymond St. Jacques
Raymond St.
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Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades.
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Semidocumentary
A semidocumentary is a form of book, film, or television program presenting a fictional story that incorporates many factual details or actual events, or which is presented in a manner similar to a documentary.
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Shirley Clarke
Shirley Clarke (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American filmmaker.
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The Cool World (soundtrack)
The Cool World is a 1964 soundtrack album to the film The Cool World by Dizzy Gillespie and his quintet, composed and arranged by Mal Waldron, a jazz pianist and composer.
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Warren Miller (August 31, 1921 – April 1, 1966) was an American writer.
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See also
Films directed by Shirley Clarke
- Ornette: Made in America
- Portrait of Jason
- Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
- Skyscraper (1959 film)
- The Connection (1961 film)
- The Cool World (film)