Everybody has a story about Chet Baker | Bruce Weber, 1988
“I told Chet in Cannes when we were interviewing him to sit in front of the film poster
of Belmondo in Breathless – but I didn’t say to sit right where the gun is.”
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Bruce Weber
Bill Claxton, the photographer, told me when Charlie Parker first heard Chet play, he called Miles Davis and Dizzie Gillespie and said, “There’s a little white cat out here who’s going to give you a lot of trouble.”
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Charlaine, who’s Chet’s first wife, told us how Chet used to play the trumpet in the shower because he thought it was good for the sound.
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Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell used to sit at the front table at The Haig in the 1950s to hear Chet and Gerry Mulligan play together.
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Someone told me he used to walk from Paris to Rome to “cool out.”
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Sam Shepard told me how he walked into Charlie Mingus’ house and saw this man hanging out in jodhpurs and a crop with no shirt on. Of course, it was Chet.
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Supposedly he was once introduced to James Dean on the street in New York City in the early 1950s and just said “Hi” and walked away.
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I say in the film, “Everybody in the film has a story about Chet Baker.”
I made the film with Chet because I wanted to have my own story about him.
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Bruce Weber, Let’s Get Lost (1988)
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