John Crosby Movies
- 1957
The best-remembered episode of the shortlived CBS public-affairs series Seven Lively Arts, this program offers a copacetic combination of jazz forms, including traditional, modern, progressive, and blues. Among those appearing are solo guitarist Big Bill Broonzy; the Red Allen group, with Allen and Rex Stewart on trumpet, Pee Wee Russell on clarinet, Vic Dickenson on trombone, Nat Pierce on piano, Danny Barker on guitar, Milt Hinton on bass and Jimmy Crawford on drums; the Count Basie group, featuring vocalist Jimmy Rushing, trumpeter Emmett Berry, tenor sax Coleman Hawkins) alto sax Earl Warren, trombonist Vic Dickenson, guitarist Freddie Green, bassist Walter Page and drummer Bo Jones; and the Jimmy Giuffre trio (Giuffre on clarinet, tenor and baritone sax, Jim Hall on guitar and Ralph Pena. The highlight of the proceedings is a rare TV performance by the exquisite blues singer Billie Holliday, backed up by trumpeter Roy Eldridge, tenor sax Ben Webster, baritone sax Gerry Mulligan, trombonist Benny Morton and pianist Mal Waldron. Most of the existing film clips of Billie Holiday have in fact been gleaned from the kinescope version of "The Sound of Jazz", which originally aired live. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Crosby, Billie Holiday, (more)
- 1957
One of the better entries in the short-lived CBS Sunday-afternoon anthology The Seven Lively Arts, "The World of Nick Adams" was adapted by A.E. Hotchner from five different Ernest Hemingway short stories: "The End of Something," " "Three Day Blow," "The Light of the World," "The Battler," "Now I Lay Me." A young Steven Hill (Mission: Impossible, Law & Order) stars as Hemingway's youthful alter ego Nick Adams, who while recuperating from wounds received in WWI recalls the past events of his life: Running away from home, making valuable friends and dangerous enemies, learning how to discern phoniness in the self-righteous and nobility in the downtrodden, etc. In his first assignment for TV, composer Aaron Copland provides the special's incidental music. Newspaper columnist John Crosby serves as host. Much of The World of Nick Adams was later incorporated in the 1962 theatrical feature Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Crosby, Steven Hill, (more)
