Jack Cole, Hollywood director

12 December 2012

Jack Cole, Hollywood director

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: diamonds are a girl's best friend, gentlemen prefer blondes, george chakiris, hal schaefer, hollywood history, howard hawks, jack cole, jane russell, marilyn monroe

The choreographer Jack Cole not only created the delicious dance numbers in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1954); he directed them. [...]

10 November 2010

Jack Cole & Marilyn Monroe reunite at Jacob’s Pillow

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: diamonds are a girl's best friend, gentlemen prefer blondes, hollywood history, howard hawks, jack cole, jacob's pillow dance festival, marilyn monroe

It was my great honor to join a panel at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on Saturday, August 14, 2010, to honor the peerless jazz choreographer Jack Cole, whom I revere and about whom I have written. As a former Denishawn dancer, Cole had a distinct history at “The Pillow.” Here I contribute a snippet about Cole’s choreography for Marilyn Monroe in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” [...]

24 June 2010

Jane Russell remembers “Gentleman” Jack Cole

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: diamonds are a girl's best friend, gentlemen prefer blondes, hollywood heritage, hollywood history, howard hawks, jack cole, jane russell, marilyn monroe

Jane Russell speaks at Hollywood Heritage about choreographer Jack Cole, who coached her and Marilyn Monroe in Howard Hawk’s comic masterpiece, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” She says Cole directed the film’s dance sequences. [...]

4 July 2008

Girl Power

Category: Film | Tags: gentlemen prefer blondes, hollywood history, howard hawks, jack cole, jane russell, last remaining seats, marilyn monroe

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are giant amazons in Howard Hawks’s comic masterpiece, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), projected on the humongous screen of the vintage Los Angeles Theater (1931) on Broadway in downtown L.A. in last summer’s Last Remaining Seats. [...]