1930 Jazzy Dance Number
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- With Abe Lyman and his Orchestra, Nancy Carroll, (Rubber Legs) Al Norman and Skeets Gallagher. From 1930 " Dancing To Save Your Sole -"
see this link for a clip of Eleanor Powell from 1930
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That this woman could keep up with the incredible Al Norman in a rubber-legged dance number is a true testament that Nancy Carroll really had it all... Simply stunning.
Hilaaarious!!! And Nancy looks alluring in her trouser suit...
This video is awesome and so chic !
There were numerous "short" films made at the same time which featured Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, The Cotton Club dancers etc..... Some of these were strictly for black consumption, while others were made for Paramount and Warner Brothers-Vitaphone.
And don't forget, a few years later, the Nicholas Brothers were featured in "Kid Millions" (Goldwyn 1934) and "The Big Broadcast" (Paramount 1935).
A day without Al Rubberlegs Norman is a day without sunshine. Nancy keeps up with him pretty admirably! Thanks for posting this!
...and then the 'athletes' started to dance. I sure do like these fun to watch numbers from the earlier days of cinema so much more than the ones with Gene Kelly running all over the place. He's like a guitar solo that goes on so long you forgot what the song was about.
Thanks for posting:-).
great stuff.
She was really talented and very cute.
She is not listed in imdb for this musical short. The only uncredited "chorus girls" listed are Iris Adrian, Mozelle Britton, Virginia Bruce, Lorena Carr, Jane Keithley, Rosina Lawrence, Barbara Leonard, Lucille Miller, Joan Peers, Gay Sheridan, and Prudence Sutton.
It's ashamed that the half restored paramount on parade has not been put on d.v.d yet
4:35-4:42 What in the...... THE DUDE'S LEGS ???
She was great. It's a shame that her career ended so soon. If she wasn't so tempermental, she could have been a rival to Ginger Rogers, who was also a great dancer and actress as well. Both women played similar roles, but Nancy seemed to have more range earlier in her career. Just goes to show you that a bad attitude will get you no where fast.
You are correct, she is NOT in this number ... she didn't come to Hollywood until 5 years after this movie short.
Nancy Carroll - in 1930 the number 1 star at the box office, some of her films she was the star, others she was only in a few scenes - Nancy left in 35 to return to the "Theatre" on her return to Hollywood in 38 her billing had dropped from Name over the title to 5th or 6th billed, after 2 films like that She left again and did theatre and television for the rest of her life, as a STAR Nancy was tagged "THE BITCH OF THE LOT"...
But she was in Queen High, which was filmed in NYC and shot around the same time
Check out the clip of Queen High linked above beginning 3:45 and check out the skinny girl dancing on the table. An uncredited Eleanor Powell .
She may be. A lot of Paramount films were filmed in Astoria Queens in the 1920s and early 1930s
I know Al Norman also appeared in King of Jazz (1930) but little seems to be known about his career, family etc. Did he just vanish from the music/dance scene after these performances?
Have to disagree, Bill Robinson had a lengthy dance sequence in Dixiana the same year (in color none the less) and many black dancers were featured in Warner Brothers "Show of Shows" in 1929 (during the dance finale).
Also Ethel Waters performed two songs in "On With The Show", another Warner Brothers film from 1929.
Hilaarious!
Well Boop boop Be Doop
Eleanor Powell is not in this number or this movie short. She didn't come to Hollywood until 1935.
I heard that Carroll was murder to work with. Great performer, though.
funcky
Nancy did not have a good singing voice. Cute as hell though! I wonder how much time she spent on the "casting couch"? Oh boy! If I could have only been that couch!