UW Cinematheque - A Couple of Coppolas

Cast: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Lonette McKee
The real-life, white gangster-owned Harlem nightclub that allowed only black performers on stage but refused customer entry to people of color provides the backdrop for the fictional story of the ascending careers of musician Dixie Dwyer (Gere) and dancer Sandman Williams (Hines) from the late 1920s into the early 1930s.