Both of the leading players began work on the movie, miserable at having to leave their loved ones back in England. Sir Laurence Olivier was missing his fiancée Vivien Leigh, and Oberon had only recently fallen in love with movie Producer Alexander Korda.
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Richard Pryor was actually involved in a project to portray Charlie Parker on film at Columbia Pictures in the early 1980s, but had a falling-out with studio executives and left. When Eastwood came on-board to direct, he opted for a lesser-known talent in Forest Whitaker to star.
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The saxophone playing is original Charlie Parker performances. The body and fingering are by Charles McPherson, who had to learn to breathe exactly like Parker did in the recordings.
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The dedication at the end of this movie reads: "This picture is dedicated to musicians everywhere."
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This movie was awarded the Grand Prix by the Belgian Film Critics Association.
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Though this movie is in color, the Warner Brothers logo at the start of the movie was unusually displayed in black-and-white. The logo is in color in the movie's trailer.
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This movie was shot before The Dead Pool (1988) but launched stateside after it. This movie was shot during the last quarter of 1987, before The Dead Pool (1988) was filmed in February to April 1988. This movie was released in the U.S. in late September 1988, after The Dead Pool (1988) had debuted in July 1988.
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One of three 1988 Clint Eastwood movies. The others being The Dead Pool (1988) and Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988).
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First of two consecutive biopics for Clint Eastwood. White Hunter Black Heart (1990) was about movie director John Huston.
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When Gillespie tells Parker that he might be going to California, Parker says, "It's not supposed to be so easy to score in California." At the time, hard drugs were rare on the west coast, which is why Parker shifted his substance abuse to alcohol.
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The first Eastwood directed picture to receive significant awards. It won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and two awards at Cannes.
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The project was originally intended for Richard Pryor at Columbia Pictures eight years earlier. Persuaded by Clint Eastwood, Columbia traded it to Warner Brothers for Revenge (1990), for which he was originally the director.
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The opening title card, "There are no second acts in American lives." is a quotation from F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Shot in fifty-two days, during October, November, and December 1987.
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Clint Eastwood, a lifelong jazz fan, had been fascinated by Charlie "Bird" Parker and his music since seeing him play in Oakland in 1945.
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"Rating the Movies" stated that Charlie Parker's music was "digitally stripped from old recordings and mixed with newly recorded rhythm tracks - a painstaking process."
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Damon Whitaker, who played young Charlie Parker, is the nephew of Forest Whitaker, who played Parker as an adult.
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Three of the four sound technicians who won the Best Sound Oscar were the sound designers on Clint Eastwood's Heartbreak Ridge (1986), which had been nominated for Best Sound.
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One of two 1988 jazz movies from Clint Eastwood. The other was Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988), a documentary executively produced by Eastwood.
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