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Berry Brothers
The Berry Brothers were an American "exotic, acrobatic soft shoe dance" trio, active in the entertainment business for over 30 years. The trio was composed of Ananias (Nyas, "King of the Strut"), James and Warren Berry. History Ananias John Willington "Nyas" Berry Jr. (August 18, 1913 – October 5, 1951) and James Gerald Berry (July 9, 1915 – January 28, 1969) were born to Ananias John Willington Berry Sr. and Redna Ross Berry in New Orleans. As early as 1919 the two brothers already performed in Chicago and then in Denver where the family settled and the younger Warren Joseph Berry (December 25, 1922 – August 10, 1996) was born.American National Biography Online In 1924 the family moved to Los Angeles, where as child actors Nyas, James and then Warren appeared in several films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Shoe
Tap dance (or tap) is a form of dance that uses the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion; it is often accompanied by music. Tap dancing can also be performed with no musical accompaniment; the sound of the taps is its own music. It is an American artform that evolved alongside the advent of jazz music. Tap is a type of step dance that began with the combination of Southern United States, Southern American and Irish dance traditions, such as Irish stepdance, Irish soft-shoe and hard-shoe step dances, and a variety of both Slavery in the United States, slave and freeman step dances. The fusion of African rhythms and performance styles with European techniques of footwork led to the creation of tap dance. This fusion began in the mid-17th century but did not become popular until the mid-19th century. There are two major versions of tap dance: rhythm (jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses on dance; it is widely performed in Musical theatre, musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low Bridge (film)
"Low Bridge, Everybody Down" is a folk song credited to Thomas S. Allen (although its origin and authorship remain in question), first recorded in 1912, and published by F.B. Haviland Publishing Company in 1913. It was written after the construction of the New York State Barge Canal, which would replace the Erie Canal, was well underway, furthering the change from mule power to engine power, raising the speed of traffic. Also known as "Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal", "Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal", "Erie Canal Song", "Erie Barge Canal", and "Mule Named Sal", the song memorializes the years from 1825 to 1880 when the mule barges made boomtowns out of Utica, Rome, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo, and transformed New York into the Empire State. The music cover published in 1913 depicts a boy on a mule getting down to pass under a bridge, but the reference to "low bridge" in the song refers to travelers who would typically ride on top of the boats. The low bridges would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Dance Groups
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You're My Everything (film)
''You're My Everything'' is a 1949 American comedy film, comedy musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter. Plot In 1924 Boston, a starstruck Hannah Adams waits outside in the rain to meet Tim O'Connor, who has just performed in a musical on stage. She invites him home to meet her family, and soon they are in love and engaged to be married. Tim is offered a Hollywood screen test, and Hannah is asked to read with him. However, it is she who is offered a contract following the test, and she becomes a star in Silent film, silent films. At the advent of sound, she retires to have a baby and live with Tim on a farm. Tim takes their daughter Jane to studio chief Henry Mercer when a child's role in a film becomes available. Hannah hesitantly agrees to permit her daughter to appear in just one film, but Tim conceals the fact that Jane has been offered a three-film contract. The conflict threatens to fracture the family. Cast *Dan Dailey as Timothy O'Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boarding House Blues
''Boarding House Blues'' is a 1948 American musical race film directed by Josh Binney which featured the first starring film role by Moms Mabley. It was the penultimate feature film of All-American News, a company that made newsreels about black Americans. Premise Mom ( Moms Mabley) runs a boarding house for struggling entertainers,''On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy'' by Mel Watkins, Chicago Review Press, 1999. similar to the situation decades earlier when Mabley had lived in a boarding house for black entertainers in Buffalo, New York.''Icons of African American Comedy'' by Eddie Tafoya, ABC-CLIO, 2011, page 20. When the boarding house is threatened with closure and all the tenants evicted due to non-payments, everyone gets together to put on a show to raise the money needed to save Mom and their home. The plot functions as a showcase for performance and comedy sketches and in the end enough money is raised to fend off the landlord. Legacy The film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Be Good (1941 Film)
''Lady Be Good'' is an American musical film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, and Red Skelton. It was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and produced by Arthur Freed. This was the first of several films Powell made with Skelton. Powell received top billing, but Sothern and Young are the main stars. They play, respectively, Dixie Donegan, a would-be lyricist, and Eddie Crane, a struggling composer. The film takes its title and theme song (" Oh, Lady be Good!") from the 1924 George and Ira Gershwin Broadway musical, '' Lady Be Good'', but otherwise has no connection to the play. According to film historian Robert Osborne in his introduction to a broadcast of the film on Turner Classic Movies in August 2006, MGM devised the film as a vehicle to launch Sothern as a musical star. Since she and Young were known primarily as light comic stars, the studio brought in Powell for a supporting role, but gave her top billing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Music Goes 'Round
''The Music Goes 'Round'' is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Harry Richman, Rochelle Hudson and Walter Connolly.Monaco p.559 It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Plot A famed Broadway star is taking a trip on a Mississippi steamer when he encounters an acting troupe performing aboard. They audition him for a place in the troupe, not realizing who he is. He finds their melodramatic show so bad that he arranges for it to be transferred to Broadway for a new revue A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre, theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketch comedy, sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural pre ..., knowing that it will be a huge comedy hit there. However his feelings are complicated by his falling in love with the troupe's leading lady. Cast References Bibliography * James Monaco. ''The Encyclo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco (1936 Film)
''San Francisco'' is a 1936 American musical film, musical-Drama (film and television), drama disaster film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy. MacDonald's singing helped make this film a major hit, coming on the heels of her other 1936 blockbuster, ''Rose Marie (1936 film), Rose Marie''. Plot On New Year's Eve, 1905, saloon keeper "Blackie" Norton hires Mary Blake to sing in his bar, the ''Paradise Club'' on Pacific Street in the notorious Barbary Coast, San Francisco, California, Barbary Coast of San Francisco. Mary becomes a star attraction at the ''Paradise'', especially for her signature tune, Theme from San Francisco, "San Francisco". Blackie's friend Mat predicts that Mary will not stay long on the "Coast". Blackie decides to run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at the behest of his childhood friend Father Tim Mullen, who believes Blackie can use the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Newlyweds' Christmas Party
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh Boy (1927 Film)
Oh Boy, Ooh Boy, or variants may refer to: Film * ''Oh, Boy!'' (1919 film), an American film directed by Albert Capellani that was based upon the 1917 musical * ''Oh Boy!'' (1938 film), a British film of 1938 * ''Oh Boy!'' (2012 film), a German film * ''Oh Boy!'' (1991 film), a Dutch film Television * ''Oh Boy!'' (TV series), a British popular music television series (1958–1959) *"Oh, boy!", a catchphrase from ''Quantum Leap'', an American television series (1989–1993) Music *Oh Boy Records, an American record label * ''Oh, Boy!'' (musical), a 1917 musical Albums * ''Oh Boy!'' (album), a 1977 album by Brotherhood of Man * ''Oh Boy'' (Don Cisco album), 2000 * ''Oh Boy'' (The Paradise Motel album), 2013 Songs * "Oh, Boy!" (The Crickets song), 1957, by Buddy Holly and the Crickets, later covered by Mud * "Oh Boy" (Cam'ron song), 2002 *" Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In)", a 1975 song by Diana Trask, later covered by Brotherhood of Man *"Oh Boy", a 2007 song by The Concretes *"Oh Boy", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Days (1926 Film)
''Happy Days'' is an American television sitcom that aired first-run on the ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning 11 seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, it was one of the most successful series of the 1970s. The series presented life in the 1950s and early 1960s Midwestern United States, and it starred Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham, Henry Winkler as his friend Fonzie, and Tom Bosley and Marion Ross as Richie's parents, Howard and Marion Cunningham. Although it opened to mixed reviews from critics, ''Happy Days'' became successful and popular over time. The series began as an unsold pilot starring Howard, Ross and Anson Williams, which aired in 1972 as a segment titled "Love and the Television Set" (later retitled "Love and the Happy Days" for syndication) on ABC's anthology show ''Love, American Style''. Based on the pilot, director George Lucas cast Howard as the lead in his 1973 film ''American Graffiti'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Blues (1925 Film)
Baby Blues may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Baby Blues'' (comic strip), created and produced by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott * ''Baby Blues'' (1941 film), an ''Our Gang'' short * ''Baby Blues'' (2008 film), a horror film * ''Baby Blues'' (2012 film), a Polish film * ''Baby Blues'' (American TV series), an adaptation of the comic strip * ''Baby Blues'' (Singaporean TV series), a drama * "Baby Blues" (''Doctors''), a 2003 television episode * "Baby Blues", a song by The Cranberries on the album '' Bury the Hatchet'' * "Baby Blues", a song by Richard Marx on the album '' Paid Vacation'' Other uses * Postpartum blues Postpartum blues, also known as baby blues and maternity blues, is a very common but self-limited condition that begins shortly after childbirth and can present with a variety of symptoms such as mood swings, irritability, and tearfulness. Mother ..., a medical condition See also * Baby blue (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
