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Title:

Cadillac Records [DVD] / Tristar ; Head Hunters, Inc. ; Sony Music Film and Parkwood Pictures present ; a Sony Music Film production ; a film by Darnell Martin ; executive producers, Marc Levin, Beyoncé Knowles ; executive music producer, Marshall Chess ; produced by Andrew Lack, Sofia Sondervan ; written & directed by Darnell Martin.

Format:

[DVD] /

Publisher:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Chess Records (Firm)--DVD.
Movies--DVD.
DVD.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Lack, Andrew. pro
Sondervan, Sofia. pro
Martin, Darnell. aus aus
Brody, Adrien. act
Wright, Jeffrey. act
Beyoncé, 1981- act
Union, Gabrielle. act
Short, Columbus, 1982- act
Cedric, the Entertainer, 1965- act
Chriqui, Emmanuelle, 1977- act
Walker, Eamonn. act
Mos Def (Rapper) act
Chess, Marshall, 1942-
Blanchard, Terence.

Notes:

Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short, Cedric the Entertainer, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Eamonn Walker, Mos Def, Beyoncé Knowles. Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.

Contents:

Special features: Optional audio commentary with writer/director Darnell Martin ; deleted scenes; [featurette:] Playing Chess: the making of Cadillac Records; [featurette:] Once upon a blues: Cadillac Records by design.

Summary:

Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James. Chess makes all of his artists part of his family and takes care of them. This is not easy since they spend a small fortune on booze, drugs, and the high life. When Chuck Berry goes to jail, Leonard is able to find another talented performer, Etta James, to take his place. In the late sixties, as their music goes out of favor, Leonard Chess gets out of the record business.

ISBN:

9781435953987
1435953983

OCLC:

(OCoLC)289038611

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