Tip, Tap and Toe
Tip, Tap, and Toe were a seminal African-American
Paramount Theatre, and were in George White's Scandals of 1936[1] and the Cotton Club Review.[2] African-Americans were not allowed to star in major motion pictures in the 1930s and '40s, but specialty acts, such as Tip, Tap, and Toe, were permitted,[3] and the group appeared in at least five major Hollywood films during that time.[1]
According to the Library of Congress Performing Arts Database[1]
They were among the first to line up and tap the same sounds using different steps or the same steps making different sounds, and then to build on that idea. Raymond Winfield is said to have contributed to the act's innovative slides. Working on a small oval platform, Winfield slid forward, backward, sideways, and around, as if he had buttered feet on a hot stove: gravity-defying balance with a maximum of activity on a minimum of space.
Filmography
- By Request (1935 short)[4]
- Scandals(1936)
- You Can't Have Everything (1937),
- Pardon My Sarong (1942) with The Ink Spots
- All by Myself (1943),
- Frank Veloz
- Hi, Good Lookin'! (1944), with Louis DaPron.
- The Human Tornado (1976), Sammy Green only
Television appearances
- Cavalcade of Bands
- Episode 2.3 (1950)
- Episode 2.17 (1951)
- The Ken Murray Show (1950)
- Mel Torme(1950)
- The Milton Berle Show
- with guest host Morey Amsterdam (1948)
- Episode 1.49 (1949) [4]
References
- ^ a b c Tip, Tap, and Toe. U.S. Library of Congress.
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- ^ "Tap Dance". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
- ^ a b Tip, Tap & Toe, Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
- Marshall and Jean Stearns, Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance (1968) p. 272
- Larry Billman, Film Choreographers and Stage Directors: an Illustrated Biographic Encyclopedia, 1893–1995 (1995) pp. 66, 146, 389, 508-509
- Rusty Frank, TAP! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories 1900-1955 (1995), pp. 65, 229, 295, films: 303-315
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