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Ann Pennington on the Cover of Dance Magazine

Stage Name

Birth Name
Ann Pennington Anna Pennington

    Ann Pennington was very popular and known as the most petite of what was then called the "Shake and Quiver dancers". Became famous for her rendition of the Black Bottom dance. She stopped the show when she danced for Ziegfeld in his 1913 Follies.

   Ann Pennigton danced many dances as well as the Black Bottom, Charleston and could tap dance as well as any male performer. She also danced in some of George White's Shows ("Scandals") and was a "Gold Digger Girl". She played a few minor supporting roles on film in the early 1940's and continued dancing and appearing on Stage and vaudeville well into the late 1940s.
Ann Pennington Autograph

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Wilmington , DE

12/23/1893 - 11/4/1971

 n/a n/a
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Black Bottom

Brooke Johns

1927 - George White Scandals -Blk Bottom

Charleston

George White

1930 - I'm Getting Myself Ready For You

Tap/ Soft Shoe

Tom Patricola

1931- Is Rhythm Necessary

Tangorilla

Diaghilev

      
                 
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

Various N.Y. Clubs

New Amsterdam (1913)

1913 to 1924 - Ziegfeld Follies
           

1915 - Passing Show (Wayburn)
           

1917 - Miss

           

1919 to 1926 - George White Scandals
           

1925 - Pretty Ladies
           

1929 - Gold Diggers Of Broadway
           

1930 - The New Yorker
           

1931 - Everybody's Welcome
           

Diaghilev Ballet Company
           

Tip Toe through The Tulips
 

Films

Television

Publications

1916 - Susie Snowflake

n/a

12/29/1918 - Chicago Tribune

1916 - The Rainbow Princess

      

4/1926 - Film Fun Magazine

1917 - The Little Boy Scout

      

12/1928 - Dance Magazine

1917 - Antics of Ann

      

9/30/1929 - Photo Play Magazine

1918 - Sunshine Nan

      

?/1929 - Night Parade Magazine

1924 - Manhandled

      

3/1/1938 - Look Magazine

1925 - Mad Dancer

            

1925 - A Kiss in the Dark*

            

1925 - Lucky Horseshoe*

            

1925 - The Pretty Ladies

            

1925 - Madame Behave

           

1925 - Golden Strain, The

            

1929 - Gold Diggers of Broadway*

            

1929 - Is Everybody Happy

            

1929 - Sporting Life

           

1929 - Night Parade*

            

1929 - Tanned Legs

           

1929 - Hello Baby!

           

1930 - Happy Days*

           

1930s - Pepper Shaker (short)

            

$1936 - The Great Ziegfeld*

           

1940 - Texas Terrors*

            

1941 - The Unholy Partners

            

1942 - China Girl*

         

$ 1991 - Best of Burlesque

          
NOTE:* = danced
April 25, 2006

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