Word: dancers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis 30-odd years ago of an allegedly white father & a colored washerwoman, Josephine's education stopped with grade school. At the age of 14 she was already hoofing in second-rate St. Louis vaudeville houses, where she met and married one Billy Baker, a tap dancer who brought her to New York and eventually found her a job in the chorus of the No. 2 road company of Shuffle Along. In Philadelphia, fame came to her one evening when she lost her shoe, did an impromptu cooch dance with her eyes crossed. It brought her back...
...Dancer Astaire plays Jerry Halliday, an American musicomedy star involved in a muddled case of mistaken affinity. The service staff at Totieigh Castle are running a sweepstakes on the young mistress' suitors, and Jerry is not even listed. Alyce (Joan Fontaine) has set her heart on an American ski jumper whom she met in Switzerland. Tyrannical Aunt Caroline (Constance Collier) is insisting on the British pianist (Ray Noble) who accompanies the madrigal singers. Alyce's final decision, urged on her by benign Lord Marshmorton (Montague Love), that the American occupying the nearby lodge is worth...
...door. Mr. Pinkle had barely shook hands when he dropped to his knees and tore ravenously at her skirt. She screamed, Mr. Pinkle is eating my grass skirt. Look at me. The guests were not slow to do this. 'Now,' she wailed, 'I can't be a Hawaian dancer.' The next day Mr. Pinkle got a raise. His employer explained, my wife doesn't want to give any more parties. Her grass skirt is ruined.' Mr. Pinkle smiled. 'I wonder,' he said, 'if I could get the rest of that skirt...
Beautiful, blonde twins, devoted to each other and the ballet, Elisabeth and Annemarie are otherwise very different. Ambitious Elisabeth leaves home, becomes a ballet dancer, marries and divorces a rich nobleman, who thought her hard work as indecent as her scanty costumes. Then she becomes involved with a dope fiend who is a composer. When their mother dies, sweet-tempered Annemarie reluctantly joins her sister on the stage. As the Sisters Vernova they dazzle the world. Still unspoiled, Annemarie goes to pieces on a U. S. tour, but a marriage resigns her to her ruined career. Elisabeth, momentarily depressed, sails...
Engaged. J. Leslie Younghusband, 41, wealthy cosmetician, to Louise Lane, former dancer; in Chicago. Disturbed that his meaningful surname should be linked in marriage now for the fifth time. Fiance Younghusband apologized: "I've had several bad starts...