All That Jazz (film)
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| Directed by | Bob Fosse |
| Produced by |
Robert Alan Aurthur Daniel Melnick Wolfgang Glattes Kenneth Utt |
| Written by | Robert Alan Aurthur Bob Fosse |
| Starring |
Roy Scheider Jessica Lange Leland Palmer Ann Reinking |
| Music by | Ralph Burns |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| Edited by | Alan Heim |
| Distributed by |
20th Century Fox (North America) Columbia Pictures (International) |
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123 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $37,823,676 |
All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Bob Fosse's manic effort to edit his film Lenny while simultaneously staging the 1975 Broadway musical Chicago. It borrows its title from the Kander and Ebb tune "All That Jazz" in that production. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2001, All That Jazz was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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