Charles Tannen as Dillingham's secretaryĪlexander's Ragtime Band features several hit songs by Irving Berlin including " Heat Wave", "Some Sunny Day", " Blue Skies", " Easter Parade", " A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" and " Alexander's Ragtime Band".Edwin Stanley as Critic in Army Show Audience.Frank O'Connor as Officer in Army Show Audience.King's Men as Singing Army Quartet - Y.M.C.A.Harold Goodwin as Military Policeman at Army Show.Tyler Brooke as Assistant Stage Manager.Selmer Jackson as Radio Station Manager.Īlexander's Ragtime Band was 20th Century Fox's highest-grossing film of the 1930s and was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning the award for Best Music, Scoring. In 1944, a federal judge ruled that most of the story by Berlin and collaborating writers had been plagiarized from a 1937 manuscript by author Marie Dieckhaus, but that decision was reversed on appeal. The story was written by Berlin himself, with Kathryn Scola, Richard Sherman (1905–1962) and Lamar Trotti.
soldiers during World War I, and the 1938 Carnegie Hall performance by The Benny Goodman Orchestra. Several actual events in the history of jazz are fictionalized and adapted to the story including the tour of Europe by Original Dixieland Jass Band, the global spread of jazz by U.S. It stars Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley and Jean Hersholt. The story spans more than two decades from the 1911 release of its name-sake song to some point in time after the 1933 release of " Heat Wave", presumably 1938. The film generally traces the history of jazz music from the popularization of Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century to the acceptance of swing as an art form in the late 1930s using music composed by Berlin. One of the most impressive moments in this ambitious film is the appearance of veteran actor James Cagney who, at 81, plays feisty Police Commissioner Waldo.Alexander's Ragtime Band is a 1938 musical film released by 20th Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song " Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in ragtime instead of "serious" music. Walker, a dignified man, turns to rage when he is tormented by local racists. Rollins), loosely modeled on Scott Joplin, begins to romance a pregnant young woman living in their home (Debbie Allen). Their seemingly perfect existence is shattered when black ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker (Howard E. Another storyline follows the disintegration of an upper-class American family headed by Mary Steenburgen (simply named Mother) and James Olson (Father). Thaw (Robert Joy) murdered her lover, the famed architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer). Nesbit was the center of the infamous (and, in the film, the very compelling) Thaw-White murder case, in which her mentally unstable millionare husband Harry K. Starving immigrant artist Tateh (Mandy Patinkin) will eventually set off to make his fortune in Hollywood, but not without a chance encounter with Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern in the role of the real-life showgirl). Doctorow novel, RAGTIME tells the intricate story of four New York families-three of which are fictional-at the turn of the 20th century, each indicative of that time in American history, and highlighting some of the downsides of following the American Dream. Doctorow Adaptations Synopsis Based on the acclaimed and popular E.L.
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