Cadillac Records

Cadillac Records from 2008 is a film about Chess records and the
artist that called it home. The film explores the musical era
from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, chronicling the life of
the influential Chicago-based record-company executive Leonard
Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records.


The film stars Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess, Cedric the
Entertainer as Willie Dixon, Mos Def as Chuck Berry, Columbus
Short as Little Walter, Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters, Eamonn
Walker as Howlin' Wolf, and Beyoncé Knowles as Etta James.