Sensations (of 1945) Powell, Eleanor performer Lee, Sammy performer Film 1944-06-30 United Artists Eleanor Powell stars as performer showing a publicity-wise agent how to create a great musical; one tap number has Powell tap dancing inside a giant pinball machine with Sammy Lee, David Lichine, Charles O'Curran, Cab Calloway, Sophie Tucker, Johnson Brothers The film opens with Powell performing a boogie woogie jitterbug with David Lichine, backed by the Woody Herman and His Band; "Spin Little Pinball" Powell dances around a pinball machine, spinning, tapping, hitting the lights, dodging bumpers; "Divine Lady" clad in top hat, shorts, and sequined tails, tap dances with the horse, Starry Night, then trots around the stage with him. 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). Smith, Ernie: The Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection. The Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History: Archives Center (). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Sammy Lee (biography) loc.music.tdabio.124 Eleanor Powell (biography) loc.music.tdabio.152 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.239