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Nov 26, 2018 · Green Book: The Real-Life Story of Dr. Don Shirley. The true history that inspired Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen. By Julie Miller.
Feb 23, 2019 · The movie is a classic road story, telling the tale of Bronx bouncer Tony Vallelonga (Mortensen), who in 1962 found work serving as chauffeur and bodyguard for Dr. Donald Shirley (Ali), a queer...
The True Story of the ‘Green Book’ Movie. Jazz, race and an unlikely friendship inspire the new film about navigating Jim Crow America. Anna Diamond. Reporter. December 2018. Viggo...
Nov 19, 2018 · A fact-check of Green Book reveals that, in this case, the movie is honest in its portrayal of Lip. According to Lip's son, Nick Vallelonga, Lip had indeed been racist before his trip with musician Don Shirley, attributing it to growing up on the Italian-American streets of the Bronx.
Nov 26, 2018 · Everything in writer Nick Vallelonga’s upcoming film Green Book, he insists, is true. The film follows pianist Don Shirley and he travels through the Deep South in the era of Jim Crow and forms a friendship with his driver, white, Italian-American bouncer, Tony Lip.
Nov 16, 2018 · How a black pianist and a white driver forged an unlikely bond amid the racial tensions of 1960s America. A compelling true story that inspired an Oscar-winning film.
Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.
