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Cotton Club dancer Mildred Dixon – Duke Ellington's second companion. The Cotton Club was a whites-only establishment with rare exceptions for black celebrities such as Ethel Waters and Bill Robinson. [7] It reproduced the racist imagery of the era, often depicting black people as savages in exotic jungles or as "darkies" in the plantation ...
Mildred Dixon (November 21, 1904 – September 18, 2001 [1]) was a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, who became a longtime companion of composer and musician Duke Ellington, and manager of his company. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents from Africville, Nova Scotia. She became a dancer and moved to New York in ...
It re-creates Harlem’s Cotton Club in the decade of the 20’s. [11] Boisseau appeared in Shades of Harlem as one of there Renaissance Ladies along with two others former Cotton Club Dancers. [12] In 2002 Boisseau was the subject of the documentary Cotton Club Girl.
LaRedd was a popular night time performer at the Cotton Club. She worked as both a singer and a tap dancer. LaRedd's open sexuality influenced her unique performance style. [1] In the late 1920s and into 1930 she also performed in Broadway theatre. [1] During this time, she became the lead dancer for Charlie Dixon of the Fletcher Henderson Band.
The Plantation Club opened as a rival to the Cotton Club in December 1929 and was housed in a former Harlem dance academy. [14] It spawned much black talent, including Josephine Baker and Cab Calloway. Not a true black and tan, it focussed on black entertainers entertaining white clients.
Washington was the dance director and headliner at Sebastian’s Cotton Club for many years. [1] She performed at Apex, a black club in Los Angeles owned by Curtis Mosby. She also performed at Legion Club and Jazzland. [3] In the 1929 film Hearts in Dixie, Washington was one of the leading actors, along with Clarence Muse. [2]
Earl "Snakehips" Tucker (August 14, 1906 in Baltimore, Maryland – May 14, 1937 in New York City) was an American dancer and entertainer. Also known as the "Human Boa Constrictor", he acquired the nickname "snakehips" via the dance he popularized in Harlem in the 1920s called the "snakehips".
Mildred Boyd (1908-1999) was an actress, a singer, and a dancer who was active in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Like many Black actresses of her era, she was often cast as a maid or a nurse.