• The Famous Door was a jazz club on New York's 52nd Street. It opened in 1935 and was one of the major clubs on the street, hosting leading jazz musicians...
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  • He has acted in plays with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and the Famous Door, and has performed twice at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland...
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    clarinet. The band had their first performance at a club called the Famous Door, owned and operated by Jack Colt. Prima's recordings from 1935 were a...
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    20, working for the next 11 years at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Famous Door. He is still an active member of Steppenwolf. He was a founding member...
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    Mercedes-Benz produced its similar, famous 300 SL gullwing door. The papillon door is a precursor to the gullwing door, and is slightly different in its...
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    Jazz, 1990) Dave McKenna, No Holds Barred (Famous Door, 1979) Butch Miles, Miles and Miles of Swing (Famous Door, 1978) Andrea Motis, Live at Jamboree Barcelona...
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    (Byg, 1969) Vibes a la Red (Famous Door, 1974-75) The Second Time Around (Famous Door, 1975) Red In New York (Famous Door, 1977) Live at Rick's Cafe (Flying...
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  • N.Y.C. Bone (Famous Door, 1979) George Masso, A Swinging Case of Masso-Ism (Famous Door, 1981) Dave McKenna, No Holds Barred (Famous Door, 1979) Danny...
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    bands. In the 1970s, he recorded for jazz producer Harry Lim and the Famous Door record label, and in 1972, accompanied the singer, Pearl Bailey, when...
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    Watrous in Hollywood (Famous Door, 1979) Coronary Trombossa! (Famous Door, 1980) I'll Play for You (Famous Door, 1980) La Zorra (Famous Door, 1980) Bill Watrous...
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  • of Ste in Jonathan Harvey's coming of age play Beautiful Thing at The Famous Door Theater in Chicago. Its success there brought the whole cast to the Cherry...
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    original bell tower was rebuilt in modern times. The main feature is the famous Door of St. Fedele, carved with medieval decorations. Sant'Agostino, built...
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  • Salutes Chick Webb (Famous Door, 1980) Butch Miles Swings Some Standards (Famous Door, 1981) Butch Miles Salutes Gene Krupa (Famous Door, 1982) More Miles...
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    5th & 6th Avenues 21 Club, 21 W 52 (1929–2020) Leon & Eddie's, 33 W 52 Famous Door 35 W 52 (Mar 1935–May 1936) 66 W 52 (Dec 1937–Nov 1943) 201 W 52 (Nov...
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    famous for capturing Guy Fawkes in 1605 and foiling his plot to assassinate King James I. The previous year, Knyvet had moved into a house next door,...
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    Sommerfeld House was completed in 1921. In 1923, Gropius designed his famous door handles, now considered an icon of 20th-century design and often listed...
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    Like You", "Tappin' at the Tappa", "The Last Jump", "Knocking at the Famous Door", "Lazy Bug" (with Juan Tizol), "Ogoun Badagris (Voodoo War God)", "Clap...
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    of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another...
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  • the Joseph Jefferson Award for best actor, the Piven Theatre Workshop/Famous Door production of The Shoemakers, directed by Shira Piven, Victory Garden's...
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    of Bourbon. Popular spots include Pat O'Brien's, Johnny White's, the Famous Door, Spirits on Bourbon, Channing Tatum's Saints and Sinners, Razzoo and...
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    was replaced by Dicky Wells. Basie's 14-man band began playing at the Famous Door, a mid-town nightspot with a CBS network feed and air conditioning, which...
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    The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger...
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  • Edwards, and bassist Bob Coquille. Girard landed a residency at the Famous Door in the French Quarter, recorded for several labels, and got a weekly...
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    Famous Studios (renamed Paramount Cartoon Studios in 1956) was the first animation division of the film studio Paramount Pictures from 1942 to 1967. Famous...
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    Ray Bryant, Madison Time (Columbia, 1960) John Bunch, John's Bunch (Famous Door, 1975) Vinnie Burke, The Vinnie Burke All-Stars (ABC-Paramount,1956)...
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  • Behind the Green Door is a 1972 American pornographic film, widely considered one of the genre's "classic" pictures and one of the films that ushered in...
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    doorstop (also door stopper, door stop or door wedge) is an object or device used to hold a door open or closed, or to prevent a door from opening too...
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  • "The Green Door" (or "Green Door") is a 1956 popular song, with music composed by Bob "Hutch" Davie and lyrics by Marvin J. Moore. It was first recorded...
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    second-generation leader of the J.R. Watkins Company and progenitor of its famous door-to-door sales strategy. It was designed in the Jacobethan style by architect...
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    short stint with Benny Goodman, Allen began to lead his own band at the Famous Door in Manhattan. He then toured with the band around the United States into...
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