Asif Abrar

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

2015-04-01

Overview: Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to "Boogie-Woogie Queen" to groundbreaking composer to mentoring some of the greatest musicians of all time, she never ceased to astound those who heard her play. But for a Black woman in the early 1900s, life as a star did not come easy.

Genres: Documentary

Original Language: en

Release Date: 2015-04-01

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Shangri-La Plaza

1990-07-30

Overview: "Shangri-La Plaza" is a musical-comedy pilot made for CBS-TV in 1990. The all-sung “Shangri-La Plaza” was directed by Nick Castle and written and created by Mark Mueller and Nick Castle. It starred The Office’s Melora Hardin, Chris Sarandon and Broadway’s original Beast and Javert Terrence Mann, a two-time Tony Award Nominee for Best Actor. It also featured the very young tap dancing phenomenon Savion Glover in one of his first television appearances. The pilot was filmed on location in an actual mini-mall at the corner of Vineland Avenue and Burbank Boulevard in North Hollywood, California.

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Original Language: en

Release Date: 1990-07-30

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Carmen Lundy

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Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

Shangri-La Plaza