#nicholas brothers

[paprikaries]

_Dancing Dice_ wip coming soon Fanart: King Dice / Mr. King Dice (from cuphead franchise)

Just a preview of this two handsome dice XDDD

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[detroitlib]

Portrait of dancer Harold Nicholas. Handwritten on back: "Nicholas, Harold."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

#harold nicholas #dance #nicholas brothers #tap #tap dance #dancer #dancers #vintage #hats #detroit public library

[deweydell25]

(via GIPHY)

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[eridanidreams]

My previous reblog of Cab Calloway reminded me of this: the finale to Stormy Weather, to Calloway's "Jumpin' Jive". This is still one of the most amazing dance routines I've ever seen.

Unrehearsed. One take.

#nicholas brothers #stormy weather #jazz dance #cab calloway #jumpin' jive #black history month #black history matters #Youtube

[furiouskettle]

action studies of the Nicholas brothers! and a singular Cab Calloway

from this video: https://youtu.be/IoMbeDhG9fU

#sketchbook #art study #nicholas brothers #kiwidoodles

[artistalley]

Nicholas Brothers

by artist @alleannaharris

This is an illustration of the Nicholas Brothers' legendary "Jumping Jive" dance sequence from the 1943 musical "Stormy Weather."

After using code “ARTISTALLEY24” for 20% off anything in her shop or her Etsy, don’t forget to give artist @alleannaharris a follow on Tumblr.

#tumblr artist alley #alleannaharris #nicholas brothers fanart #nicholas brothers #jumping jive #stormy weather

[superduper0306]

This dance sequence from „The Pirate“ was the first time famous black dancing duo The Nicholas Brothers had danced onscreen with a Caucasian, while it was Kelly's insistence that they perform with him. The Nicholas Brothers were the ones punished. When released to the feature movie theater circuit distribution, this Nicholas Brothers sequence was deleted by MGM when screened in the Southern States, such as Memphis, because it featured black performers, the result of racial bigotry in the South. Only in the Northern States' movie theaters, were audiences allowed to view the entire end production presentation. Essentially blackballed, Fayard and Harold Nicholas moved to Europe and did not return until the mid-sixties making a comeback appearance on The Hollywood Palace (1964) hosted by Roy Rogers and Trigger.

#gene kelly #nicholas brothers #old hollywood #dancing #racisim #black hollywood #dance #clown #judy garland #the pirate

[thesobsister]

"I Want to Be a Minstrel Man," Kid Millions (1934)

This sequence, which TW: features a glimpse of star Eddie Cantor applying the burnt cork for his blackface appearance, features a very young Harold Nicholas (his older brother Fayard joins him in a different part of the sequence) singing and dancing like a pro, as well he might've done, given that he had been performing professionally since he was 5 years old.

It's actually unusual, I think, to see him as the centerpiece of this bit, with white Goldwyn Girls dancing around him as they would for a white singing star. Maybe the fact that he was a kid made him unthreatening in a way that a Black man could never be in the audience's eyes.

Blink, and you'll miss Lucille Ball as a Goldwyn Girl in this number. But the film features a pretty good cast besides her and the Nicholas Brothers, including a great turn by Ethel Merman as a grifter posing as Cantor's mother, and Ann Sothern and George Murphy as the romantic leads.

Click above for a 45-page pressbook issued for this film. Quite remarkable in its comprehensiveness of press and promotional material available to media and exhibitors.

#movie musical #eddie cantor #nicholas brothers #ethel merman #ann sothern #between #cantor and #al jolson #there sure was some love of #blackface #and throw #bing crosby #in there too #Youtube

[pygartheangel]

#nicholas brothers

[alleannaharris]

Today's illustration is of Fayard and Harold Nicholas, better known as the Nicholas Brothers. They were a team of dancing brothers who performed flash dancing, a form of tap dance that combined jazz with acrobatics.

The brothers started out as child performers in vaudeville, but they became stars during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. They went on to star in Broadway musicals and Hollywood movies, where they were some of the first Black performers to perform in integrated films. Their careers spanned over six decades.

The Nicholas Brothers’ performance of Jumpin’ Jive with Cab Calloway in the movie Stormy Weather is considered to be the most virtuosic dance display of all time. Fun fact: they didn’t even rehearse the scene, they did it in one take.

I’ll be back tomorrow with another illustration and story!

I’ll be back tomorrow with another illustration and story!

#nicholas brothers #cab calloway #black history month #black history month 2023 #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #kidlitart

[hollywoodpastandpresent]

The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge in a publicity still for Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

#dorothy dandridge #nicholas brothers

[paprikaries]

_Dancing Gamblers_ WIP

Fanart: Mr. King Dice/King Dice (cuphead fandom) Poses inspired by the Nicholas Brothers from  “Stormy weather” (Cab Calloway and Nicholas Brothers clip) It’s funny to draw these two guys because despite they should be the same character, both their look and personalities are quite different, and also the authors have suggested that the show isn’t exactly a prequel but something like an alterverse, if I’m not wrong. If that’s true, I’m definetly justifyied in drawing them like two characters by two specular universes. 😁

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[trivalentlinks]

"Chattanooga Choo Choo", Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, from the film Sun Valley Serenade (1941).

Saw some posts featuring gorgeous tap dance routines, but I hadn't seen my favourite one yet, so I thought I'd share it.

(Disclaimer: I have not watched the film that this scene is from.)

#chattanooga choo choo #tap dancing #tap dance #nicholas brothers #dorothy dandridge #song starts at 0:23 #dancing starts in earnest at 1:06 and kicks up a notch at 2:10 and again at 3:09 #(my understanding is that all three of them are minor characters #and i generally don't enjoy old movies so i have no particular interest in watching the film)

[ticket-to-interzone]

Fred Astaire‘s Favorite Dance Scene

Jumpin Jive

The Nicholas Brothers & Cab Calloway

Stormy Weather (1943)

From the New York Times:

For it wasn't the acrobatics, in themselves, that made the Nicholas brothers the Nicholas Brothers. It was the overall beauty and musicality of the entire dance. Their achievement was in the how — the way Fayard would deploy his hands, as graceful as Fred Astaire's; the way Harold would make every silhouette superclear; the genial, noncompetitive way each brother would cede the floor to the other for a solo, passing the dance like a baton, in musical time. When Astaire pronounced their "Jumpin' Jive" number in the movie Stormy Weather (1943) — unrehearsed and achieved on the first take — to be the greatest dancing he had ever seen on film, he was not commending the acrobatics alone but rather the way the brothers erupted organically out of their tap steps, like a series of overlapping geysers that, simply to look at, project an observer into a stratosphere of elation.

#nicholas brothers #fred astaire #cab calloway #stormy weather #real hot shit #and they didn‘t rehearse this

[the-insidious-dr-grey-matter]

From Batman: Urban Legends #22 — I’m pretty sure that is supposed to be Nicholas Brothers on the TV. If you haven’t seen this dance, do yourself a favor and watch it. Maybe the greatest tap routine of all time from these two self-taught hoofers.

#Nicholas brothers #batman #nightwing #dc comics #tap dance #Youtube

[gwydionmisha]

Nicholas Brothers - I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo

#Nicholas Brothers #I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo #Music #Dance