TOOTS
Toots Shor was friend to the famous, crook to the feds, father, brother, gambler, bum, but most of all he was the owner of America’s greatest saloon.
Directed by his granddaughter, Toots is a provocative, loving and unmistakably authentic portrait of the self-made, unapologetic and quintessentially American man who became the unlikely den-mother to the heroes of America’s golden age.
Politicians and gangsters, sports heroes and movie stars – Sinatra, Gleason, DiMaggio, Costello, Eisenhower, Warren – all found their way to Toots’ saloon on New York’s West 51st Street for food and drink, served with a heaping side of insults.
From its post-WW II heyday to its devastating decline in the 1970s, this film reveals as much about New York as it does about the man and his enduring legacy.
Featuring: Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Frank Gifford, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Nick Pileggi, Sidney Zion, Gay Talese, Pete Hamill and Gianni Russo.
- Release year:
- 2006
- Director:
- Kristi Jacobsen
- Running length:
- 85 minutes
- Production company:
- Catalyst Films
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