Shipmates Forever Keeler, Ruby performer Powell, Dick performer Film 1935-10-16 First National Cocky Powell takes the Navy lightly until pressed into action in an unusual plot that includes songs and dances with Ruby Keeler. This time Powell is a nightclub singer who is shamed into joining the academy US Naval Academy because his father is an admiral; and Ruby the girl who sees him through while teaching dancing to children as a livelihood. Ruby taps prettily in a nightclub sequence as Powell croons. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Smith, Ernie: Selected List of Films and Kinescopes. In Jean and Marshall Stearns' Jazz Dance (1968). Thomas, Tony: That's Dancing!. New York, Harry Abrams (1984). 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.715