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Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) looks back to the 1920s-1930s peak of the legendary Harlem nightclub where only blacks performed and only whites could sit in the audience. Mixing historical figures with characters loosely based on .. Read more
| Starring | Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Bob Hoskins, Lonette McKee |
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| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Genres | Drama, Music/Musical |
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