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 Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn`t have much of a voice. It`s very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn`t there. And I don`t blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
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They were all good. Can`t say that none was best and none was worst. I don`t know, they were all good as far as I was concerned.
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Of course, nobody knows what Porgy was, whether he was on his knees all the time or was pulled by a goat or - they don`t know what he was.
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That`s what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn`t nobody know what Porgy was.
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We didn`t have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
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You don`t think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn`t make a difference! Doesn`t make a difference. I think he did a good job.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody`s interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That`s all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that`s a rough job.
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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What opera isn`t violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can`t.
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You can`t say they look up to him - if you did, you`ve got to look up to everybody in the show. But he`s an outstanding character in the show.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Charleston was a good town. It was a nice town. I played there years ago before Porgy and Bess. And I think the conception wasn`t bad. It was good.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don`t do that on stage.
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I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn`t make no difference what color they were.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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Well, he didn`t have much of a conversation with me. Not that I can remember. I wasn`t used to him. That`s about all. I don`t know. No conversation.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o`clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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"The only difference between a black entertainer and a white entertainer is that my ass has been kicked a lot more and a lot harder because it`s black."
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Trivia
Once performed the role of Sportin` Life in "Porgy and Bess" at Kansas City`s Starlight Theater.
The oldest featured actor to appear in The Blues Brothers (1980), Calloway outlived co-players John Candy by more that 4 months and John Belushi by better than 12 years and 7 months.
Was the inspiration for the character of Oogie Boogie in Tim Burton`s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1993 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Cab Calloway School of the Arts opened in 1992 in Wilmington Delaware, was named after him.
Former bandleader of the famous Harlem Cotton Club in the 30s
Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1987.
Scored two notable Broadway successes: In Gershwin`s "Porgy and Bess" (1952), opposite Leontyne Price and William Warfield, and "Hello, Dolly!" (1967), opposite Pearl Bailey and daughter Chris Calloway.
The artist records "Minnie the Moocher". The record was the first jazz album to sell a million copies. [3 March 1931]
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