Dennis Quaid To Direct, Star & Write 'Shame On You'

[Thursday, December 2nd, 2004]
Dennis Quaid is to make his feature directorial debut while also starring and writing a biopic on the controversial 1940s Western swing star Spade Cooley called Shame on You, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Katie Holmes is in talks to play Cooley's wife, whom he killed in front of their teenage daughter in 1961. Cooley spent the '60s in prison for his crime and was released in 1969 to perform a benefit concert, where he died from a heart attack backstage.

Born in 1910, Cooley formed his first band in the early '40s. In 1943, his band recorded "Shame, Shame on You" before splitting in 1946.

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