- Description
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The All-Colored Vaudeville Show / Adelaide Hall [film]
- Title
- The All-Colored Vaudeville Show [Film]
- Performers
- Hall, Adelaide
- The Three Whippets
- Nicholas Brothers
- Nicholas, Harold
- Nicholas, Fayard
- Published/Created
- 1935-09-06
- Genre
- Film
- Note
- Vitaphone/Warner Brothers
- Abstract
- Short subject musical film featuring the Nicholas Brothers. Filmed on the stage of a Warner Brothers theatre in Brooklyn, structured as a variety show, with each of the specialty acts introduced on a placard carried onstage by a chorus girl. Adelaide Hall singing sedately, "To Have You, To Hold You" surprises the audience by lifting her long gown in the middle of the song to buck-and-wing in her high-heeled shoes. The Nicholas Brothers open their act to a late Dixieland /early Swing Swing style tune, moving in single file as a one-man machine; their second number recreates the Shim Sham , a four-part routine from the twenties invented by Leonard Reed and Willie Bryant consisting of shuffle steps, cross-over steps, the tack-Annie, and a half-break with a tagged-on walk-off.
- Source
- Hill, Constance Valis: Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers. New York: Oxford University Press (2000).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015