Toots (2008)

The 40s and 50s were a classic period in New York City nightlife when the saloonkeeper was king and regular folks could drink with celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason In this documentary Kristi Jacobson profiles her grandfather the king of kings Toots Shor of the eponymous restaurant and saloon which was once the place to be seen in Manhattan Edward R Murrow called Toots Shor the owner of Americas greatest saloon He became the unlikely denmother to the heroes of Americas golden age Politicians and gangsters sports heroes and movie stars Sinatra Gleason DiMaggio Ruth Costello Eisenhower Nixon Warren for 30 years they all found their way to Toots eponymous saloon on New Yorks West 51st Street