Lindy Hop Swing
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BIOGRAPHIES
First Generation:
Shorty George
Leroy Stretch Jones
Twistmouth George

The Golden Age:
Whitey's Lindy Hprs.
Sandra Gibson
George Grenidge
Leon James

Day at the Races 

1937
Directed by Sam Wood
Ann Johnson
Dorothy  Johnson
Norma Miller
Al Minns
Frankie Manning
Billy Ricker
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
Queen of Swing
Radio City Revels
The Spirit Moves
Stompin' at theSavoy 
Swing Kids
Swingin'at the Savoy
Symphony in Black

This very fun Marx Brothers film is considered among the 100 funniest films of all times. In it Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
dance to All God's Chillun Got Rhythm. Whitey himself
can be seen on the sidelines. He is identifiable by the streak
of white in his hair. 

This scene, like the Lindy Hop sequence in Hellzapoppin',
has no connection to the main plot of the movie, so that it
could be cut from the film when it was shown in the Deep
South and other segregated venues. The African-American
people in the dance scene are portrayed as innocent and
happy, a common stereotype of the time. The appearance
of the Marx brothers in blackface may be shocking to
modern audiences, but was meant to be no more than a
harmless disguise at the time the film was made. 

 

Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx 


Whitey's Lindy Hoppers :