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Hal Leroy Tap Dancing

Stage Name

Birth Name

Hal Leroy John Leroy Schotte

    American Dancer and Actor. Was a favorite during the height of the tap dance craze in the 1920s that was dominating the Stage and later films of that time.

    Danced a Jitterbug with Betty Hutton in Public Jitterbug #1 (Vitaphone Short, AKA: Newsreel). Was friends with legendary tap dancer Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson. Died at the age of 71 after heart surgery.

Hal Leroy Taps in "Private Lessons" circa 1913.

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

n/a 12/10/1913 - 5/2/1985 n/a n/a
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners , Performed with etc.

Music Titles

Ballroom Al Minns n/a
Swing Dance Betty Hutton      
Tap Chazz Chase      
      Eunice Healy      
      Dawn O'Day      
      Dorothy Dare      
      Dorothy Lee      
      Frankie Manning      
      June Allyson      
      Leon James      
      Mitzi Mayfair      
      Preisser Sisters      
      Toby Wing      
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

Hoofers Club (NY) 10/11/1950 - El Rancho (Vegas) 1931 - Ziegfeld Follies
            1935 - Thumbs Up
            1935 - Roberta
            1948 - Sunny
            1952 - Sally
            1952 & 1958 - Showboat
            1954 & 1958 - Oklahoma
            1954 - Red Mill
            1961 & 1965 - Cinderella
            Strike Me Pink
 

Films

Television

(Other)

1932 - Tip Tap Toe (Mitzi) 1951 - Colgate Comedy Hour n/a
1933 - Use Your Imagination            
1933 - Mr. Broadway (w/ Firisco)            
1933 - Way of all Freshman, the (Vitaphone)            
1934 - Harold Teen            
1934 - Hollywood Newsreel            
1934 - *Picture Palace (O'Day. Vitaphone)            
1934 - *Private Lessons (O'Day. Vitaphone)            
1934 - *Syncopated City (Dare. Vitaphone)            
$1934 - Wonder Bar (First National)            
1935 - *In The Spotlight (Lee)            
1935 - Main Street Follies (Vitaphone)            
1935 - Musical Memories (w/ Keeler. Paramount)            
1936 - *Rhytmitis (Wing)            
1938 - Start Cheering            
1938 - Prisoner of Swing            
1938 - The Knight is Young            
$1940 - Too Many Girls            
1981 - *Private Lessons            
*High School Hoofer            
*Oh Evaline!            
*Public Jitterbug #1 (Hutton)            
             
*Swing For Sale (Allyson)            
*Use Your Imagination (Mitzi)            
* Wash Your Step (Preisser)            
Born to Sing and Dance            
NOTE:* = a one Reel - Short Film
August 14, 2007
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