Bolden (2019)
Where the music began
A mythical account of the life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans.
- Date of release
- 2019-05-03
- TMDB
- 4.1 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Director
- Dan Pritzker
Casting
- Gary Carr — Buddy Bolden
- Michael Rooker — Pat McMurphy
- Ian McShane — Judge Perry
- Yaya DaCosta — Nora Bolden
- Ser'Darius Blain — Willie Cornish
- Reno Wilson — Louis Armstrong
- Kelvin Harrison Jr. — Frankie Dusen
- Erik LaRay Harvey — Bartley
- Robert Ri'chard — George Baquet
- Karimah Westbrook — Alice Bolden
- JoNell Kennedy — Ida Bass
- Serena Reeder — Mavis
Interesting facts
Bolden is a 2019 American drama film based on the life of cornetist Buddy Bolden (1877–1931). One of the seminal figures in jazz history, Bolden left no surviving recordings, having been committed in 1907 at age 30 to the Louisiana State Insane Asylum, where he spent the rest of his life after a diagnosis of acute alcoholic psychosis.
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