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Ann Pennington

Stage Name, aka

Birth Name
Ann Pennington Anna Pennington
Penny, Tiny  

    Ann Pennington was very popular and known as the most petite (4' 9" tall) of what was then called the "Shake and Quiver dancers." Became famous for her rendition of the Black Bottom dance. She began her career on Broadway as a member of the chorus in The Red Widow (1911) and made her debut in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1913, She actually stopped the show when she danced for Ziegfeld in his 1913 Follies. It was no wonder that she quickly rose as one Ziegfeld's top stars of the show and sometimes earning a salary of $1000 per week at one point in her career.

   Ann Pennington 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 then retiring.
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

 Allen Kearns

1927 - George White Scandals -Blk Bottom
Charleston

Brooke Johns

 1929 - Those Tanned - Legs

Snake Hips

George White

 1930 - Believe Me (sang)

Tap/ Soft Shoe

Tom Patricola

1930 - I'm Getting Myself Ready For You

Tangorilla

Diaghilev

1931 - Is Rhythm Necessary
    1939 - Snake Hips (Worlds Fair)
        You're Responsible
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

Various N.Y. Clubs

 Cumberland Theatre (1930)

1913 to 1924 - Ziegfeld Follies
     

New Amsterdam (1913)

1915 - Passing Show (Wayburn)
           

1917 - Miss

           

1919 to 1926 - George White Scandals
           

1925 - Pretty Ladies
           

1929 - Gold Diggers Of Broadway
            1930 - Is Everybody Happy
           

1930 - The New Yorker
           

1931 - Everybody's Welcome
            1931 - the New Yorkers
            1939 - NY Worlds Fair (clip)
           

Diaghilev Ballet Company
           

Tip Toe through The Tulips

 
Clips

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

       1/1927 - Photoplay Magazine
 

1917 - Antics of Ann

      

12/1928 - Dance Magazine
 

1918 - Sunshine Nan

      

9/30/1929 - Photo Play Magazine
 

1924 - Manhandled

      

?/1929 - Night Parade Magazine

 

1925 - Mad Dancer

      

3/1/1938 - Look Magazine
 

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 - Happy Days (does snake Hips)            
 

1929 - Is Everybody Happy

            
Clip 1929 - Roof Garden Dancer            
 

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
December 30, 2009

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