Forty-Second Street/ 42nd Street
Keeler, Ruby
performer
Film
1933-12-29
Warner Brothers
Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Dance numbers created and directed by Busby Berekely. Music - Al Dubin, Harry Warren. Screenplay - Rian James, James Seymour, based on a novel by Bradford Ropes.
Tap musical numbers include "Shuffle off to Buffalo" "42nd Street" with Ruby Keeler singing and dancing heavy-footed clogging steps. Performers include Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell. Ruby Keeler's pert Irish charm more relevant than her thin, nasal voice and heavy-footed (clog) dancing.
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts
Frank, Rusty E.: Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and their Stories 1900-1955. New York, William Morrow. (1990).
Smith, Ernie: Selected List of Films and Kinescopes. In Jean and Marshall Stearns' Jazz Dance (1968).
Tap Dance America
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html
Ruby Keeler (biography)
loc.music.tdabio.117
tda
IHAS
151216
loc.music.tda.60