Hank Azaria
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Plot. At the height of the Great Depression, aspiring singer Olive Stanton dreams of getting a job as an actress with the Federal Theatre Project. Playwright Marc Blitzstein is working on his new musical, The Cradle Will Rock, but lacks the inspiration to finish it.
Jan 21, 2000 · Cradle Will Rock: Directed by Tim Robbins. With Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack. A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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- Drama
- Tim Robbins
- 2000-01-21
Witty and provocative. As labor strikes break out throughout the country, New York is alive with cultural revolution. Nelson Rockefeller (John Cusack) commissions Mexican artist Diego Rivera ...
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- Tim Robbins
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- Hank Azaria
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Dec 24, 1999 · Cradle Will Rock. Roger Ebert December 24, 1999. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. It was a time when the rich flirted with communists and fascists, when the poor stood in bread lines, when the class divide in America came closer to the boil than ever before or since.
Summaries. A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production. In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity.
on YouTube. " And the Cradle Will Rock... " is a song written and performed by Van Halen. It appears on their 1980 album Women and Children First and was released as a single. It is also the first song released by the band that featured the keyboard playing of Eddie Van Halen .
He composed a variety of modernist pieces with this elitist attitude in mind, from piano sonatas and concertos to operas and incidental music for films, but his 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock ironically launched him into the national spotlight because of its social and political relevance and accessibility.
