Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Story

UNFORGETTABLE is the story of Nat King Cole, and his marriage to his second wife, Maria.

It is also the story of the developing jazz scene from the 1940s to the 1960s, and an unflinching look at the racism prevalent in America in those decades, and the rise of the civil rights movement.Nat King Cole was a huge recording star - Capitol Records was founded on his success - and today he is fondly remembered by many, but not many people know that he was hounded by the Ku Klux Klan, and that they attempted to kidnap him from a stage mid-performance, with a view to killing him.

But Nat had a conflicted relationship with the civil rights movement itself.The Nat King Cole Trio were the first black Americans to have their own radio show.

Nat himself was the first black American to have his own coast to coast network TV show.

But Nat saw himself primarily as an artist, not as a spokesperson, and this two-hander tells the story of how he tried to juggle being an artist, a husband and a father through the shifting attitudes of the time, and all under the glare of blazing publicity.It is about a man trying to stay true to his jazz roots while others around him tell him what he should be doing