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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Walter Bernstein (writer)
Harold Flender (novel)
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Release Date:
27 September 1961 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Love So Spectacular, So Personally Exciting, You Feel It Happening To You!
Plot:
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Paul Newman dies of cancer at 83
(From The Hollywood News. 27 September 2008, 6:25 PM, PDT)
Robert Redford 'Beyond Words' over Newman’s Death
(From PEOPLE.com. 27 September 2008, 12:00 AM, PDT)
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What is Cool? more (21 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Paul Newman | ... | Ram Bowen | |
| Joanne Woodward | ... | Lillian Corning | |
| Sidney Poitier | ... | Eddie Cook | |
| Louis Armstrong | ... | Wild Man Moore | |
| Diahann Carroll | ... | Connie Lampson | |
| Barbara Laage | ... | Marie Seoul | |
| André Luguet | ... | Rene Bernard | |
| Marie Versini | ... | Nicole | |
| Moustache | ... | Drummer | |
| Aaron Bridgers | ... | Pianist | |
| Guy Pederson | ... | Bass Player | |
| Serge Reggiani | ... | Michel Duvigne | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Emilien Antille | ... | Man with alto sax in jazz cave when Armstrong enters | |
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Runtime:
98 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:PG | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11 | USA:Approved (PCA #19792)
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Although Duke Ellington received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music, Scoring a Musical Picture, this film is not a musical, but rather a romantic drama in a jazz-music setting. more
Quotes:
Ram Bowen:
You just do anything I say, don't you?
Lillian Corning:
Well, I want to stay.
Ram Bowen:
You're a nut. Well, I ain't gettin' involved with no nut!
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Featured in Century of Black Cinema (2003) (V) more
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This movie is one of my all time favorites. It epitomizes the "cool" of integrated 1960's Paris where so many Americans of all races sought refuge and escape from the limitations posed by racism in America. It also explores the issues of and differences in race in the USA and in France(Paris). The music is "grand" and the scenario is spectacular. I think it's a fun and interesting film that should be in any jazz lovers library. Paul Newman and Sidney Poiter click so well, and the ladies(Joanne Woodward and Diane Carroll) are simply fabulous. I don't think this movie would have the same appeal and believability if it had been filmed in the USA. I believe this film was a labor of love and friendship on the parts of its cast members, and it shows. I love Paris!