Toots
Alternate/Foreign Title: Toots Shor: Bigger Than Life [Working title]
DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2009-01-13
Genre: Documentary
Director: Kristi Jacobson
Stars: Gay Talese, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Frank Gifford, Pete Hamill, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Nicholas Pileggi, Gianni Russo
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis: A friend to the famous, a crook to the feds, father, brother, gambler, bum: Toots Shor was many things. But above all, he was the owner of America's greatest saloon. Sinatra and DiMaggio, Ruth and Costello, Eisenhower, Nixon and Warren: for 30 years, they all found their way to Toots' eponymous saloon on New York's West 51st Street. 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...
  Source: Menemsha Films