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2 unusual facts about Stormy Weather


Fayard Nicholas

He, along with his brother Harold, made up the Nicholas Brothers tap-dance duo who starred in the MGM musicals An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), Stormy Weather (1943), The Pirate (1948), The Five Heartbeats (1991) and Hard Four (2007).

Toni Trucks

Theatre credits include "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," “Cactus Flower,” “Stormy Weather”, “Kiss Me, Kate”, “West Side Story,” “Oklahoma!,” “Follies,” “Footloose,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “Ragtime,” “Sweet Charity” and “Children of Eden.”


Dooley Wilson

His role in Casablanca was by far his most prominent, but his other films included My Favorite Blonde (1942) with Bob Hope, Stormy Weather (1943) with Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers), and the western Passage West (1951).

Harold Arlen

Arlen and Koehler's partnership resulted in a number of hit songs, including the familiar standards "Let's Fall in Love" and "Stormy Weather." Arlen continued to perform as a pianist and vocalist with some success, most notably on records with Leo Reisman's society dance orchestra.


see also

Arkie Whiteley

Love Hurts as Annabel Golding (2 TV episodes, 1992) in Let's Do It, & Stormy Weather

Arung Samudera

On August 23, 2007, the Arung Samudera ran aground off the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia in stormy weather.

Emil Newman

He had 15 titles in 1943, including "Musical Direction" for the all-black musical Stormy Weather and the 20th Century Fox wartime film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas, 19 in 1944, 17 in 1945 and 16 in 1946, including Hugo Friedhofer's Academy Award score for The Best Years of Our Lives, which he also conducted.

Hubert Le Blon

Le Blon drowned in a crash landing into the sea on 2 April 1910 while flying in stormy weather at Ondarreta Beach, San Sebastián, Spain, where he had been performing exhibition flights since 27 March.

Mount Dom Dom

Mount Dom Dom was the site of a plane crash involving a Cessna 210 aircraft on 18 June 1974 during stormy weather.

MV Langeland

It sank on July 31, 2009 in stormy weather south of the Koster Islands; no one from its 6-men crew survived.

Weather Machine

During its daily two-minute sequence, which includes a trumpet fanfare, mist, and flashing lights, the machine displays one of three metal symbols as a prediction of the weather for the following 24-hour period: a sun for clear and sunny weather, a blue heron for drizzle and transitional weather, or a dragon and mist for rainy or stormy weather.