Tough Cookie Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies

Fasten your seatbelts, Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies is an entertaining mindbender. A one-woman stage show, written and performed by Jessica Sherr who transforms into her character, the legendary Hollywood icon, Bette Davis on the night of the 1939 Oscars. Davis arrives home after leaving the banquet hall in the Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel knowing that she would not win the Oscar– but Vivien Leigh will for Gone With The Wind. After...
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The Girls in the Band a Jazz Legacy

Facing racism, sexism, exclusion and just plain dismissal from a male dominant music establishment, The Girls in the Band, a documentary directed by Judy Chaikin, is about female big band and jazz instrumentalists whose stories and experiences as women overcame social and gender repressive obstacles to just wanting to play their music– in bands, in clubs, on the road, on stage –with passion. The film opens centered on a famous group shot of...

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