Toots
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Kristi Jacobson
Walter Cronkite
Frank Gifford
Nicholas Pileggi
Gianni Russo
Gay Talese
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Synopsis
Toots Shor was a well known saloonkeeper in New York from 1940 to 1959 and his eponymous midtown Manhattan bar was the place to be seen. Decades later, his granddaughter documentary filmmaker Kristi Jacobson takes us on tour of her famous grandfather's world through interviews with family, friends, patrons, and some choice archival footage. Born in turn-of-the-century Philadelphia, Shor made his way to New York in 1930, and started out as a bouncer at various speakeasies. Some years after the repeal of Prohibition, he made good on his connections and opened his own place. Shor's jocularity and innate sense of populism turned his saloon into a phenomenon, and on any given night the average working stiff might find himself drinking next to Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, mobster Frank Costello, ballplayer Joe DiMaggio, or singer Frank Sinatra, among many others. But Shor was as bad with business as he was good with people. After selling his bar for $1.5 million in 1959, he blew through his entire bankroll before reopening at a new location in 1961. Unfortunately, Shor could not keep up with the changing times, and the radical 1960's spelled the death of his establishment's popularity.
Director
Kristi Jacobson
Cast
Walter Cronkite
Frank Gifford
Nicholas Pileggi
Gianni Russo
Gay Talese
Mike Wallace
Peter Duchin
Joe Garagiola Sr.
Crew
Whitney Dow
Lewis Erskine
Penelope Falk
Daniel B Gold
Kristi Jacobson
James P Macgilvray
Alan Mattone
Tom Mcdonough
Peter G. Miller
Peter Miller
Alicia Sams
Mark Suozzo
J.t. Takagi
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Released in United States October 5, 2007
Released in United States on Video January 13, 2009
Released in United States 2006
Released in United States June 2006
Shown at Tribeca Film Festival (NY, NY Documentary Feature Competition) April 25-May 7, 2006.
Shown at SILVERDOCS:AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (World View) June 13-18, 2006.
Released in United States Fall September 14, 2007
Released in United States October 5, 2007 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video January 13, 2009
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at Tribeca Film Festival (NY, NY Documentary Feature Competition) April 25-May 7, 2006.)
Released in United States June 2006 (Shown at SILVERDOCS:AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (World View) June 13-18, 2006. )
Released in United States Fall September 14, 2007
