Showing posts with label Cotton Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cotton Club. Show all posts
Sweets Edison Quotes
"That's the one part about that movie, 'The Cotton Club,' that's true. They didn't allow blacks in there. I couldn't even go there to pick up my wife. I had to stand on the corner and wait for her to come out. So I finally got to the point I wouldn't even go down and pick her up. Cause I was having too much fun in Harlem, anyway." - Sweets Edison
Lena Horne Quotes
"I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers]." - Lena Horne
Cab Calloway Quotes
"We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free." - Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway Quotes
"Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club." - Cab Calloway
