Jack cole

Jack Cole (1911-1974) was the most influential choreographer you’ve never heard of. As a dancer, choreographer and director, Cole’s relative obscurity today belies the major influence he had on stage and cinema musicals of the 1940s-50s and -60s. Considered the father of modern jazz dance, his many disciples became much more famous than their muse – Gwen Verdon, Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Tommy Tune, Matt Mattox, and Alvin Ailey, among others. According to Agnes de Mille, “They all stole…

Jack Cole! Father of Theatrical Jazz!

A top-gun choreographer in his time -- feared, respected, and awed -- Cole's enormous contribution is puzzlingly little known, even inside the dance world.

Recreates the atmosphere, and quotes from a review, from Jack Cole's nightclub days at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room, 1942.

Jack Cole

Marilyn Monroe’s six-movie collaboration with Jack Cole began with 1953’s “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” the breakthrough film that made her a superstar. Yet the man behind the icon has been forgotten – an odd missing puzzle piece in view of Monroe’s staying power.

An afternoon symposium at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival will remember dancer/choreographer Jack Cole, August 14, 2010. arts·meme will attend.

JACK COLE - Like They Say in the Travel Folders, Miss Duncan ¬ Getting There Is Half the Fun - Aug 1958 Playboy - item by fineart.ha

The choreographer Chet Walker describes the legacy of Jack Cole, the father of theatrical jazz dance, who is being celebrated in a new show called “Heat Wave.”

This is the first of a three-part article providing a comprehensive look at comics master Jack Cole’s cartoons published in Playboy magazine in the mid- to late-1950s. “You are so right about the comic mags being for the birds.” - Jack Cole in a letter to a friend (quoted from Ron Goulart’s Focus on Jack Cole) In 1945, to illustrate a story about him that was published in the Berkshire Courier, Jack Cole drew a self-portrait in which he is shown to be a gag cartoonist. In this image, drawn…