Reid, Grant Harper

Grant Harper Reid toiled in the entertainment industry for over two decades tasking mostly in the, thank-less job of setting up film locations. When he worked on the Francis Ford Coppola film the Cotton Club Grant's Harlem location office was housed right inside of the old Connie's Inn nightclub and Lafayette Theatre where his grandfather Leonard Harper used to stage many of his captivating and fast stepping jazz based revues. At the Cotton Club film's premiere party at Regine's Grant stood right next to Cab Calloway unaware that his grandfather introduced him to Broadway audiences in his 1929...