Sugar Chile Robinson performs at the Lincoln. I should do an entire post on him, but so many stories and only one Larry Harnisch.
July 3, 1947: One of the regular complaints in my Twitter feed is about the lack of people of color among movie critics. So here we are. A review of “Crossfire” in the Los Angeles Sentinel by Wendell Green. He says: “They should have stood in bed.”
Also: Duke Ellington says jazz musicians need thorough technical training.
“Crossfire” was based on the novel “The Brick Foxhole,” by Richard Brooks. In the original story, the murdered man was gay, not Jewish, but the Production Code rejected this as a story element in the movie.
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