Caesar Salad in 1946??

James A. Landau JJJRLandau at AOL.COM
Fri Feb 15 15:42:20 UTC 2002


At 8:09 PM -0500 2/14/02, I wrote:
>At work today there was a Black History Month program on "Black Music in
>Cinema".  One of the film clips that was shown had a black singer doing a
>song in which the phrase "Caesar salad" occurred.
>
>If I read the credit correctly (it flashed by pretty quickly so I may easily
>be wrong), the singer was Nat King Cole, the clip was from "Breakfast in
>Hollywood", and the date was 1946.

It turns out that the film clip I was citing is from "That's Black Entertainment" which was recently released on DVD, so someone out there with a DVD player can check out the citation.

     - Jim Landau



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