Category: Franchot Tone

  • Jazz Mania: Film Noir, Bebop and the Devil’s Music

    Jazz Mania: Film Noir, Bebop and the Devil’s Music

    Elisha Cook Jr., ‘Phantom Lady’ (1944) You might be surprised to learn that jazz didn’t show up in film noir right away even though by the 1940s swing was part of the popular music landscape and bebop was well on its way to becoming a solid American art form. But you wouldn’t know it by watching…