- Description
Tap Dance America is a reference work of bibliographic information and does not point to digitized versions of the items described. The Library of Congress may or may not own a copy of a particular film or video. To request additional information Ask a Librarian.
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On Your Toes / Eddie Albert [film]
- Title
- On Your Toes [Film]
- Performers
- Albert, Eddie
- Harper, Herbie
- O'Connor, Donald
- Published/Created
- 1939-10-14
- Genre
- Film
- Note
- Warner Brothers
- Abstract
- Warner Bros.
Though the film is remembered for George Balanchine's exquisite jazz ballet, "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" starring Vera Zorina and Eddie Albert as The Hoofer, it also features one of earliest appearances of Donald O'Connor in a vaudeville act tap dancing a soft-shoe routine with cane and straw hat.
Though Eddie Albert in the role of The Hoofer in "The Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" was not a tap dancer, Vera Zorina writes in her autobiography that Balanchine "used a superb black tap dancer and cut back and forth from Eddie Albert's face and torso to the tap dancer's feet. It worked perfectly." Larry Billman believes that the dancer may have been Herbie Harper, who assisted Balanchine in the tap choreography for the Broadway production (1936) of "On Your Toes." - Source
- Billman, Larry: Film Choreographers and Dance Directors: An Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia, 1893-1955. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland (1997).
- Frank, Rusty E.: Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and their Stories 1900-1955. New York, William Morrow. (1990).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015