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The Nicholas Brothers were an entertainment act composed of brothers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold (1921–2000), who excelled in a variety of dance techniques, primarily between the 1930s and 1950s.
Fayard Antonio Nicholas (October 20, 1914 – January 24, 2006) was an American choreographer, dancer and actor. He and his younger brother Harold Nicholas made up the Nicholas Brothers tap dance duo, who starred in the MGM musicals An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), Stormy Weather (1943), The Pirate (1948), and Hard Four (2007).
Harold Lloyd Nicholas (March 27, 1921 – July 3, 2000) was an American dancer specializing in tap. Nicholas was the younger half of the tap-dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers , known as two of the world's greatest dancers.
By 1948, Nicholas had abandoned his family. [40] Dandridge filed for divorce in September 1950, and it was finalized in October 1951. [41] Dandridge gave birth to her only child, Harolyn Suzanne Nicholas, on September 2, 1943. [38] While she was in labor, Nicholas left her stranded at her sister-in-law's home without the car when he went to ...
Dancers The Nicholas Brothers, Fayard and Harold were honored, along with three musical theater songwriting duos: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and John Kander and Fred Ebb.
LeTang recognized his talent and began choreographing numbers specifically for him and his younger brother Gregory, patterned on the Nicholas Brothers. [4] Maurice made his Broadway debut in The Girl in Pink Tights in 1954. [5] Shortly after, the brothers began touring as the opening act for such headliners as Lionel Hampton and Gypsy Rose Lee.
He had a large role in The Cotton Club (1984), where he and his brother Maurice (in his sole film credit) played a 1930s tap-dancing duo reminiscent of the Nicholas Brothers. [14] Hines co-starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in the 1985 film White Nights , and co-starred with Billy Crystal in the 1986 buddy cop film Running Scared .
"Be a Clown" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1948 film The Pirate.The song was performed twice in the film: first by Gene Kelly and The Nicholas Brothers and then at the end of the film by Kelly and Judy Garland.