Toots (2007)
September 14, 2007Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Maury Allen
Himself
David Lawrence Brown
Himself
Dave Anderson
Himself
Yogi Berra
Self
Kristi Jacobson
Director / Producer
Penelope Falk
Editor
David Brown
Self
Mark Suozzo
Music
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Toots is a documentary film which outlines the life of Toots Shor (1903–1977), Manhattan's premier saloonkeeper from the year 1940 to the year 1959. At 18, he relocated from South Philadelphia to New York and became a speakeasy bouncer. In 1940, he opened his restaurant, Toots Shor's at 51 West 51st St., which was frequented by sports heroes, actors, mobsters, cops, politicians, visiting dignitaries, and writers. The film is commentated by Shor's daughter, Frank Gifford, Peter Duchin, former sports writers, and others as the filmmaker mixes still photographs, archive footage, including an appearance on "This Is Your Life," and an audio-tape interview from 1975 to present a portrait of New York during and after Prohibition and of a lovable, larger-than-life, uniquely New York public figure.