A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don’t do that on stage. Cab Calloway Read Quote
Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn’t have much of a voice. Cab Calloway Read Quote
He was a silly guy. Out – do the other guy. That was his effort at all times. Cab Calloway Read Quote
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any. Cab Calloway Read Quote
That’s what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago – course, didn’t nobody know what Porgy was. Cab Calloway Read Quote
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn’t make no difference what color they were. Cab Calloway Read Quote
You don’t think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What – doesn’t make a difference! Doesn’t make a difference. I think he did a good job. Cab Calloway Read Quote
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That’s all. They synchronize very – you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that’s a rough job. Cab Calloway Read Quote
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody’s interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. Cab Calloway Read Quote
