My Wild Irish Rose The Dunhills performer Prinz, LeRoy performer Berry Brothers performer Film 1947-12-27 Warner Brothers Assisted by Hal Belfer. LeRoy (Jerome) Prinz was the dance director in this film. The dance director/ supervisor for over one hundred films for Paramount, Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century-Fox and Universal, at the age of fifteen he ran away from home to New York where he learned some basic dance steps from a man named "Buck" who, to the accompaniment of his harmonica, taught him tap dancing and Buck-and-Wing. He claimed "I never learned a time step!....I conceived and staged and directed." For the film "My Wild Irish Rose" he imported jig dancers from Ireland. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts 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). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Berry Brothers (biography) loc.music.tdabio.23 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.289