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Vintage Videos Instructional Videos T-Shirts Notecards BIOGRAPHIES First Generation: Shorty George Leroy Stretch Jones Twistmouth George The Golden Age: Whitey's Lindy Hprs. Tiny Bunch Congaroo Dancers Sandra Gibson George Grenidge Leon James Ann Johnson Dorothy Johnson Norma Miller Al Minns Frankie Manning |
Ann Johnson
Killer Diller (1948) |
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Willa Mae Ricker Russell Williams MOVIES After Seben The Big Apple Call Of The Jitterbug Can't Top the LHop Cootie Williams Cottontail Day At The Races Chicago & All That Jazz Frankie Manning Instructional Videos Hellzapoppin' Hot Chocolates Jammin'the Blues Jittering Jitterbugs Killer Diller Malcolm X Manhattan Merry-Go-Round |
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wonderfully athletic and agile dancer, Ann Johnson was Frankie
Manning's partner in Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers in 1940-1942. Manning says she was like a cat: " No
matter what way I threw her, she would land on her feet...She was also
a wonderful human being.".
She appeared with Manning twice in Life Magazine, once anonymously in 1940 in a photo of the aerial "Over the Head" sent in by a reader, the second in a great 1941 photo story by W.Eugene Smith which captures her mid-air and throughout an aerial step sequence . As a member of Whitey's primo group The Harlem Congaroos, Ann's remarkable dancing can be seen in the feature film Hellzapoppin'and in the popular soundieHot Chocolates. From 1947-1952 Ann Johnson was Manning's partner in the Congaroos and danced in the film Killer Diller. |
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