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Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American dancer and actress. Best remembered for her tap dance numbers in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s, she was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's top dancing stars during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Her last film at RKO was Too Many Girls (1940). In 1939, Miller made her Broadway debut in George White's Scandals of 1939. She remained at RKO until 1940. [13] Miller was famed for her speed in tap dancing. Studio publicists drafted press releases claiming that she could tap 500 times per minute, but because the stage floors were waxed and too ...
She often performed in nontraditional clothing for a female tap dancer at the time, such as low-heeled shoes and "white tails". Madison performed at the Apollo Theater in New York City from 1933 to 1934 in the first run of the musical Blackbirds of 1933 and during the late 1940s alongside tap dancer LaVaughn Robinson ; she also performed in the ...
Juanita Pitts was an African-American tap dancer. [1] During performances, she was known to wear a tuxedo and Oxford shoes, which was common attire for male tap dancers at the time. However, during her life she "danced in relative obscurity". [2] Pitts was from Philadelphia and performed on stage and in clubs as a headliner, mainly in the 1930s ...
This category is intended for notable American tap dancers. Pages in category "American tap dancers" The following 156 pages are in this category, out of 156 total. ...
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The following is a list of female dancers by nationality ... Roxane Butterfly (active since 1998), tap dancer, choreographer; ... (1940–2009), dancer and ...
Hope saw Thomas tap dance in Hollywood and invited her to join the USO tour. Hope and Thomas both worked for Paramount Studios. Hope called his USO World War II military tour of the South Pacific in 1944: “Loew's Malaria Circuit” and “the Pineapple Circuit”. Hope and Thomas did 150 shows in the two 1/2 months they were on road.