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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. November...
Nov 16, 2018 · Green Book, starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, tells the story of an unlikely friendship between an Italian American driver and an African American pianist on a concert tour from New...
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...
- When Did The Real Story Behind Green Book Take place?
- Did Don Shirley Really Live in An Apartment Above Carnegie Hall?
- What Is The Meaning Behind The Film's Title, "Green Book"?
- Did Pianist Don Shirley Play at Whites-Only Theaters?
- Had The Real Tony Lip Been in The Army?
- Did Tony Lip Eat 26 Hot Dogs in One sitting?
- Were Don Shirley and Tony Lip Really Friends?
- Did Don Shirley Really Refuse to Eat with His Hands?
- Did Tony Lip Really Write Letters Home to His Wife Dolores?
- Was Don Shirley Ever Married?
Like in the film, the true story unfolded mainly in 1962. Tony Lip, an Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx who was employed at New York City's Copacabana nightclub, accepted a job driving the renowned African-American musician Don Shirley through the Deep South.
Yes. As depicted in the Green Book movie, Don Shirley lived in one of the elegant artists' units above Carnegie Hall for more than 50 years. At times, he probably felt like he was trapped in a castle's tower, wishing he could be in the concert hall below performing in the many symphonies held there. He did get to play on Carnegie Hall's stage. Shir...
The title of the movie comes from The Negro Motorist Green Book, more commonly referred to as "The Green Book", which was a segregation-era guidebook for African-American motorists that alerted them to which restaurants, garages and hotels offered service to blacks. Travelers would also encounter "sundown towns," which prohibited blacks from being ...
Yes. Don Shirley's southern tour depicted in Green Book had been booked by Columbia Artists, his management company. He indeed found himself playing at whites-only theaters and parlor rooms. Safety was a concern, as only six years prior in 1956 Nat King Cole had been assaulted on stage while performing for an all-white audience in Birmingham, Alaba...
Yes, this was confirmed while researching the Green Booktrue story. Before his days working at the Copacabana nightclub and his job driving pianist Don Shirley, Tony Lip had served in the United States Army. He had been stationed in postwar Germany in the early 1950s. He is pictured below in uniform.
Yes. According to his son Nick Vallelonga, Viggo Mortensen's character eating 26 hot dogs in one sitting indeed happened in real life. -TIME
Yes. Relatives of Don Shirley have come out against the film, calling it a "symphony of lies," with one of their main claims being that Don Shirley and Tony Lip were never friends. However, that accusation has since been disproved after audio clips of Don Shirley were posted in a Deadline article that featured him stating that he was friends with T...
Yes. Like in the Green Bookmovie, Tony Lip's larger-than-life personality contrasted the much more reserved virtuoso Don Shirley, who spoke with an upper-class enunciation and refused to pick up food with his hands. In the film, we see Lip persuade Shirley to try fried chicken. Shirley daintily touches the piece of chicken, not sure of the proper w...
Yes. In fact, to get the story correct while writing the screenplay, Tony Lip's son, Nick Vallelonga, used the letters that his father had written to his mother. It's true that at times the letters were co-authored by Don Shirley. In the 1980s, Vallelonga had started preparing to tell the story of his father's friendship with Shirley. It was then t...
Yes. Don Shirley was married at one point but split from his wife in a divorce. "Jean and I got divorced," said Shirley during an interview for the documentary Lost Bohemia. "It had nothing to do with love. It had nothing to do with lust. It had to do with the fact that here I had the opportunity to have a career. And God knows that's just somethin...
Feb 10, 2019 · Nick said Shirley never came out in real life. Nick maintains the story is true, and that only the timelines were bent. In real life, the pair's trip only lasted about two months. In the movie,...
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.
