 |
1941 |
Universal Pictures |
John Belushi, Kay (Jitterbug Contest.) |
Jitterbug |
1979 |
|
 |
A Day At The Races |
M.G.M. |
Whitey's, Leon James, Snookie Beasley, Billy Rickter, George Greenridge, Dot Miller, Norma Miller |
Lindy
Hop |
1937 |
 |
A Lady Takes a Chance |
Republic |
John Wayne and Jean Stevens |
Jitterbug |
1943 |
 |
A Little Jive is Good For You |
??? |
- |
|
1941 |
 |
Abou Ben Boogie |
Walter Lantz Corp. |
Animation |
|
1944 |
|
After Seban (Clip 2) |
Paramount Pictures |
Shorty
George, James Barton, Little Bea |
Lindy
Hop |
1929 |
 |
Air Mail Special |
Soundies Corp. |
[Lindy dance to Count Basie Orch) |
Lindy
Hop |
1941 |
 |
'Alligators' plus 'Cats' plus 'Jive' Equals More Swing |
Paramount Pictures |
[Shag, Truckin and Lindy Hop] |
Lindy
Hop, Collegiate Shag |
1938 |
 |
Always A Bridesmaid |
Universal Pictures |
Dean Collins, Jewel
McGowen, Jivin' Jacks and Jills |
|
1943 |
 |
American Pop |
Tristar |
[Lindy Hoppers] (Cartoon of actual vintage Lindy) |
Lindy
Hop |
1981 |
 |
Among the Living |
Paramount Pictures |
Patti Lacey, Ray Hirsch, Roy Lester, Jane Allen |
|
1941 |
|
Arthur Murray dance Commericial |
n/a |
two dancers do WCS While narrator talks about A&M (UK Adv). |
West Coast Swing |
1960 |
|
Arthur Murrays 'How To Dance The Shag |
General Service |
Arthur Murray Shag Dancers |
Arthur Murray Shag |
1937 |
 |
Ask Uncle Sol |
20th. Century Fox |
Shorty George and Big Bea and his troupe |
Lindy
Hop |
1937 |
 |
At The Jazz Band Ball |
Yazoo Video! |
Shorty George, James Barton, Bojangles and more. |
Lindy
Hop |
1932 |
 |
Attack of the 50ft. Woman |
20th. Century Fox |
[Jitterbug] |
Jitterbug |
1958 |
 |
Australian Jitterbugs Jitter |
Paramount Pictures |
- |
|
1944 |
 |
Babes In Arms |
M.G.M. |
Maxie Dorf, Larry "Lolly" Wise |
Lindy
Hop |
1939 |
 |
Babes On Broadway |
M.G.M. |
Maxie Dorf |
Lindy
Hop |
1941 |
|
Bachelor Mother |
R.K.O. |
Lawrence Lolly Wise and Marge Wilson, Swing Scene, Ginger Rogers |
Lindy
Hop |
1939 |
 |
Be Bop |
Paramount News |
[French swing] |
|
1949 |
 |
Belles On Their Toes |
20th. Century Fox |
[Shag Dancers] |
|
1953 |
 |
Benny Goodman Story |
Universal Pictures |
Pat Eggars, Darlene Lind, Lou Southern, Lenny Smith, Nicholas Brothers, Gil and Nikki Brady |
Tap , Lindy
Hop |
1955 |
 |
Bessie Smith & Friends |
BCI Eclipse |
Nicholas Brothers, Lena Horne, Bessie Smith |
Tap |
1929-1945 |
 |
Beware |
Timeless |
Louis Jordan Video, no swing dancing, Dimples Daniels Lizzie dancing |
|
1946 |
|
Big Apple, the |
Paramount News Headliner |
??? Various Dancers not known. Shows dancers and narrates. (also see from the Minuet to the Big Apple from Paramount below, different film) |
Charleston, Shag, Jitterbug, Shine, Suzy-Q, Peckin', Lindy, Truckin |
1937 |
 |
Birmingham Black Bottom |
Koch Vision |
Non Dance (c.1927) |
|
1927 |
 |
Black Bottom |
??? |
??? |
black bottom |
1927 |
 |
Black Board Jungle |
Warner Home Video |
(Introduced Rock and Roll music to Audiences) |
West Coast Swing |
1955 |
 |
Bli-Blip |
??? |
Marie Bryant & Paul White |
|
1942 |
|
Blondie Meets the Boss |
Alpha-Omega |
Ray Hirsch & Patti Lacey |
Collegiate Shag |
1939 |
 |
Boarding House Blues
|
All American |
"Crip" Heard, Berry Bros, Stump and Stumpy |
Tap |
1948 |
 |
Boogie-Doodle |
Norman McLaren |
(Animated (on 'selected Films Norman McLaren (14 Short Films)' |
|
1948 |
 |
Boogiemania |
Soundies Dist |
Helen Bangs & Albert Reese James |
|
1946 |
 |
Boogie Woogie |
Paramount Musical Parade |
??? |
Jitterbug |
1945 |
 |
Boogie Woogie |
??? |
(Animated Jitterbug) |
Jitterbug |
1960 |
 |
Boogie Woogie Blues |
??? |
Hadda Brooks. (sorry, Not yet seen) |
|
1948 |
 |
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company 'B' |
Walter Lantz |
(Animated Musical) |
|
1941 |
 |
Boogie Woogie Dream |
Soundies |
(No dance, But good Swing Music) |
|
1944 |
 |
Bop Girl |
n/a |
Calypso, ECS, Lou Southern, Gil Brady |
|
1957 |
 |
Boy! What a Girl |
Gotham Dist. |
Int'l Jitterbugs, Harlemaniacs, Jitterbug |
Jitterbug |
1946 |
 |
Broadway Highlights of 1930
|
[try
here] |
(Many 1930's Nightclubs in NY) |
|
1930 |
 |
Broadway Serenade |
??? |
Roy Lester, Helen Seamon |
|
1939 |
 |
Buck Privates |
Universal Pictures |
Dean Collins, Jewel McGowen, Gil Hernandez, Connie Weidell, Gene 'Shadow' Cole |
|
1941 |
 |
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid |
Merrie Melodies |
(Animated) |
|
1942 |
 |
Bumble Boogie |
RKO / Disney |
(Short Animation (aka: Melody Time) |
|
1948 |
 |
Bundle Of Joy |
R.K.O. |
Gil and Nicki Brady, Lenny Smith, Joe lanza, bess flowers |
|
1956 |
 |
Burlesque in Harlem |
Alpha Home Entertainment |
(Bevy of dances and dancers) |
|
1939 |
 |
Cabin In The Sky |
M.G.M. |
Archie Savage, Leon James |
Lindy
Hop |
1943 |
 |
Call Of The Jitterbug |
Green |
Congeroo, Parks, Whitey's Londy Hoppers, Lindy Hop |
Lindy
Hop |
1988 |
 |
Calling Dr. Gillespie |
??? |
(Short Swing Scene) |
|
1942 |
 |
Calypso Heat Wave |
Columbia Pictures |
Lenny Smith, Frieda Angela Wyckoff |
|
1957 |
 |
Cannery Row |
Turner |
Funny Scene with Nolte and Winger |
|
1982 |
 |
Canterville Ghost |
Warner Brothers |
?Dean Collins Choreog.?, with Margaret O'Brien |
|
1944 |
 |
Carl Deacon Moore and His Orchestra |
Vitaphone Short |
[Big Apple] |
|
1938 |
 |
Carnival Rock |
How Co. ? |
Gil Brady, Freda Angela Wyckoff |
|
1957 |
 |
Charleston ...
[Avante Garde - try here] |
??? |
Catherine Hessling charleston's from Outer Space with a monkey |
|
1927 |
 |
Charleston, the |
Renoir Silent |
(a Jean Renoir Silent film ) |
|
1928 |
 |
Charleston Queen |
??? |
(Animated) |
|
1926 |
 |
Chicago and all That Jazz |
N.B.C. |
Leon James, Al Minns |
|
1961 |
 |
Chicken Run [DVD] |
Universal Pictures |
(Animated Chicken Lindy Scene) |
Lindy
Hop |
2000 |
|
Chool Song, the |
??? |
Dean Collins, Jewel McGowen (as Collette) Swing, Minuet, Truckin' |
|
194? |
 |
College Confidential |
Universal International |
(Occasional swing dancer in various scenes. mainly ECS, WCS Sugarpush.) |
|
1960 |
 |
College Humor |
Paramount Pictures |
Freddie Christopherson
|
|
1933 |
 |
College Swing |
Universal Pictures |
Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan do the Jitterbug |
Jitterbug |
1937 |
 |
Collegiate |
??? |
- |
|
1926 |
 |
Collegiate |
??? |
Tom Gallagher, Sharpe, Usher, Prinz, Marjorie Reynolds |
|
1936 |
 |
Cootie Williams Orchestra |
??? |
Leon James, Dot Johnson, Russell Williams, Carolyn Hughes |
Lindy
Hop |
1943 |
 |
Copacabana |
Republican |
Groucho Marx, Carmen Miranda, Jitterbug at end of film |
Jitterbug |
1947 |
 |
Cottontail (aka Harlem Harmonies) |
Harlem |
Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Lindy Hoppers, Three Chefs, Bojangles |
Lindy
Hop , Tap |
1941 |
 |
Cow Cow Boogie [try
here] |
??? |
(Animation) |
|
1943 |
 |
Crazy House |
Universal Pictures |
Pepsi Bethel, Tiny Bunch, & the De Marcos |
Lindy
Hop |
1943 |
 |
Crime Wave |
Encore TV |
- |
|
1985 |
 |
Cuban Rhythm |
M.G.M. |
Mickey Alvarez, Madeline Pollard
(a Pete Smith short - Rumba) |
|
1941 |
 |
Daddy-O |
Columbia Pictures |
Sandra Giles, ( Gil and Nikki Brady) |
|
1958 |
|
Dance Hall |
20th. Century Fox |
Dean Collins, Jewel McGowen, Ceaser Romero, Carole Landis, Connie Wydel |
|
1941 |
|
Dance Hall Racket |
Quality Studios |
Unknown Swing dancers, Killer Joe Piro |
Lindy |
1953 |
 |
Dance, Girl, Dance |
R.K.O. |
Vivian Faye, Lucille Ball, Not sure about this one |
|
1940 |
 |
Dancing Program #5 |
P.B.S. |
has swing clips-"Shorty George", Lindy Hop |
Lindy
Hop |
199? |
|
Dean Collins Rare Disco Footage |
Home Video |
Dean dancing to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" at Happy Daze Disco |
|
1982 |
 |
Death in Small Doses |
??? |
Freida Wyckoff, Lou Southern |
|
1957 |
 |
Desk Set |
20th. Century Fox |
Freida Wyckoff, Joe Lanza, Lou Southern |
|
1957 |
 |
Dispossessed Blues
|
short film |
(songs by: Lynn Albritton & the Four Knobs ) |
|
|
|
Don't Knock the Rock |
Columbia Pictures |
Gil and Nicki Brady, Freida Wyckoff, Lou Southern, |
West Coast Swing |
1956 |
 |
Down Argentine Way |
20th. Century Fox |
Betty Grable, Nicholas bros. Charlotte Greenwood, Dean Collins, Jewel McGowen |
Jitterbug |
1940 |
 |
Duke Is Tops |
Ryko |
Lena Horne, Criner, Hawley, Willie Covan, Rubberneck Holmes |
Tap |
1938 |
| |
Dynamo A (Dizzie Gillespie) |
Music Short |
Unknown Lindy Dancers |
Lindy Hop |
1947 |
 |
$ Ellington Shorts |
Paramount Pictures |
- |
|
1929-41 |
 |
Everybody Sing |
MGM |
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Judy Garland |
Lindy Hop |
1938 |
 |
Fighting Seabees |
Republican |
John Wayne with Adele Mara, Jitterbug |
Jitterbug |
1944 |
 |
Follow The Boys |
Universal Pictures |
Bob Ashley, Lenny Smith, Lou Southern, Carmen Amaya, George Raft, Vera Zorina |
|
1944 |
 |
Ford 50th Anniversary |
??? |
Ollies Newsreel #2 & Wally Cox Dance Demos. |
|
1953 |
 |
Four Jills in a Jeep |
20th. Century Fox |
Freida Wyckoff, Roy Damron, George Tyne |
|
1944 |
 |
Fox Movietone News #19/100: Jitterbug |
20th. Century Fox |
- |
Jitterbug |
8/26/1937 |
 |
Fox Movietone: USO Dancers |
20th. Century Fox |
- |
Jitterbug |
3/17/1942 |
|
From the Minuet to the Big Apple |
Paramount Pictures |
Unknown Dancers |
Big Apple, Lindy Hop, Suzy-Q, Charleston, Truckin, & More |
1937 |
 |
Gangs All Here, the
(aka: In the night) |
20th. Century Fox |
Diedre Gale, John Mills, Charles Saggau, Johnny & Jenny Duncan |
|
1941 |
 |
Gangs all Here, The
(aka: Girl he left behind) |
20th. Century Fox |
Diedre Gale & Charles Saggau, John Mills, Miriam LaVelle, Tony DeMarco & Virgina Wilson, Carmen Miranda, |
Jitterbug |
1943 |
 |
George White Scandals |
R.K.O. |
- |
Tap |
1934 |
 |
George White Scandals |
20th. Century Fox |
Bojangles, Eleanor Powell |
Tap |
1935 |
 |
George White Scandals |
R.K.O. |
Dean Collins, ??? |
|
1945 |
|
Georgie Porgie |
Official Films |
Ray Hirsch and Patti Lacey |
Collegiate Shag, Jitterbug, Truckin' |
1946 |
 |
Get Hep to Love |
Universal Pictures |
Jivin' Jacks and Jills, Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan |
Jitterbug |
1942 |
 |
Get Yourself a College Girl |
-- |
- |
|
1964 |
|
Ghost Catchers |
Universal Pictures |
Dean Collins choreo, Bob Ashley, Lou Southern, Betty Stoy, Lenny
Smith, Patti Lacey, Bob Ashley, Betty Stoy, Gil Hernandez, Irene Thomas, John & Venna Archer and more (see page). |
Jitterbug |
1944 |
 |
Girl Can't Help It, The |
20th. Century Fox |
Lou Southern, Gil and Nicki Brady |
|
1956 |
 |
Give Out, Sisters |
Universal Pictures |
Jivin' Jacks and Jills |
Jitterbug |
1942 |
|
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra |
Warner Brothers |
Dean Collins & Jewel McGowen |
Jitterbug |
1942 |
 |
Glenn Miller Story |
M.C.A. |
Lisa Gaye, Anita Deaton, Archie Savage Dancers |
Jitterbug |
1954 |
|
Groovie Movie |
M.G.M.
(a Pete Smith Short) |
Artthur
Walsh, Jean
Phelps-Veloz, Alice "Scotty" Scott, Lou Southern, Lenny
Smith, Kay Vaughn, Irene Thomas, Charles Saggau, 'Mousie'
Albright [ Poster] |
Jitterbug |
1944 |
 |
Hamburg Gets The Jitters |
Paramount Pictures |
- |
- |
1952 |
 |
Harlem Bound |
Vitaphone Short |
(Musical short: 20 mins (Mentone Comedy #4, Universal) |
|
1935 |
 |
Harlem
Harmonies v.2 |
Hotline |
Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers, Three Chefs, [Lindy
Hop, Bojangles], (aka cottontail) |
Lindy
Hop |
1941 |
 |
Harlem Hoofers Fry Their Corns |
Paramount Pictures |
[Lindy dancers] |
Lindy
Hop |
1938 |
 |
Harlem
Swings |
??? |
Jitterbug Johnnies ([dance, music, 1930s to 1950s) |
Jitterbug |
1950 |
 |
Harvest Moon Ball |
Paramount News |
(1939, 1941, 1949, 1950, 1951) |
Lindy
Hop |
Varies |
 |
Harvest Moon Madness |
??? |
- |
- |
1951 |
 |
Having a Wonderful Life |
??? |
Walter Cosden, Shag |
- |
?1960's? |
 |
Heats on Again, the |
??? |
Three Heat Waves, Jitterbug |
Jitterbug |
1943 |
|
Hellzapoppin' |
Universal Pictures |
Dean Collins, Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Mike Tremini, Norma Miller, Frankie Manning, Wila Mae Richkter, Al Minns, Ed Brandts, Billy Richter, William Downes, Francis Johnson, Martha Raye, Lindy Hop |
Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing |
1941 |
 |
Here Come The Waves |
Paramount Pictures |
???, Betty Hutton, also Blackface routine |
Jitterbug |
1944 |
 |
Hi
Buddy |
Universal Pictures |
Dick Humphries, Marilyn Kaye, Helene
Stanley, Jivin' Jacks and Jills, Step Brothers |
Jitterbug |
1943 |
 |
Hi-De-Ho (no swing Dance!) |
Storyville |
Cab Calloway (Plot: Radio) |
- |
1934 |
 |
Hi-De-Ho (no swing!) |
Timeless |
Cab Calloway Short - no swing! (Plot: Infidelity) |
- |
1937 |
 |
Hi-De-Ho (no swing!) |
All American |
Cab Calloway Chor: Addison Carew. Tap: Miller Bros. & Lois, Shorty
George Snowden (Plot: Cotton Club) |
Lindy
Hop |
1947 |
 |
Hold
That Co-ed |
20th. Century Fox |
- |
- |
1938 |
 |
Holiday
Inn |
Universal Pictures |
Fred
Astaire, Various dances, Brief Jitterbug Scene, |
Jitterbug |
1941 |
 |
Hollywood
Canteen |
Warner Brothers |
Johnny Archer, Gil
Hernandez, Jack Coffey, (very brief) also Rosario
and Antonio - do a Spanish dance |
Jitterbug |
1944 |
 |
Home
In Indiana |
??? |
Charles Saggau, ?? |
|
1944 |
 |
Horn Blows At Midnight |
Warner Brothers |
Dean
Collins, john archer, Jean
Phelps-Veloz, |
|
1945 |
 |
Hot Chocolates (aka: Cottontail) |
Soundies |
Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers, William
Downes, Al Minns, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Francis Johnson, Wila Mae Richter, Ann Johnson, Billy Richter, Lindy
Hop |
Lindy
Hop |
1941 |
|
Hot
Rod Gang |
American International |
Kay Wheeler, John Ashley, (Long swing scene) |
West Coast Swing |
1958 |
 |
Houseboat |
Paramount Studios |
Gil
and Nicki Brady, Joe
Lanza |
|
1958 |
 |
How To Do The Big Apple |
Paramount Studios |
[Big Apple dance and others.] |
|
193? |
 |
I
Am The Law |
COLUMBIA |
Edward G. Robinson and others do the Swing, Suzy
Q. Big Apple, Shag, Shimmy |
|
1938 |
 |
I
Dood It |
M.G.M. |
Kid Jitterbug Dancers, Buck
and Bubbles, Eleanor
Powell |
Jitterbug, Tap |
1943 |
 |
I Married Joan, V.14: Jitterbug |
TV |
n/a |
|
1952-1955 |
 |
I'll
Remember April |
Universal Pictures |
Jack Archer, Venna Archer, Irene Thomas |
|
1945 |
 |
I'm Just a Jitterbug |
Universal Pictures |
Walter Lantz Animated Mother Goose |
|
1939 |
 |
In A Jazz Way |
Maura Dehn |
Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers, Lindy
Hop |
Lindy
Hop |
1987 |
|
I Love Lucy Show |
Desilu |
Lucille Ball does the Jitterbug w/ Arthur Walsh |
Jitterbug |
1953 |
 |
In The Swing |
T.V. |
Dean
Collins, Mary
Collins, lb, Bobby Hefner, Shirley
Fietsem, Mary Ann Nunez, Lance Shermoen, kl (30 min. short film.) |
|
1981? |
 |
Irene |
RKO |
Anna
Neagle, Ray Miland, Dandridge
Sisters |
Jitterbug |
1940 |
 |
It Takes Hot Dogs to Win the Lindy Hop |
Pathe News |
Various - at Harlem Dance Hall |
Jitterbug |
1931 |
|
It’s in the Stars |
??? |
Johnny Downs |
Charleston,ShagJitterbug, Truckin, Collegiate |
1938 |
 |
It's Swing Ho - Come to the Fair |
Paramount Pictures |
[Jitterbug] |
Jitterbug |
1939 |
 |
Jam
Session |
Columbia Pictures |
Ann
Miller, Margaret Campbell Jitterbug Scene |
Jitterbug |
1944 |
 |
Jammin'
The Blues |
United |
Archie
Savaga, Marie Bryant |
Lindy
Hop |
1944 |
 |
Janie |
??? |
(Teen Movie) |
|
1944 |
 |
Java Jive |
??? |
Al Donahue (2 minute short film) |
|
1943 |
 |
Jazz
Band Ball |
??? |
Cab Calloway |
Lindy
Hop |
1956 |
|
Jazzy Joe |
R.C.M. Productions |
Dean
Collins & Jewel
McGowan, Gil Fernandez & Patti Lacey
|
|
1941 |
 |
Jitter Bughouse |
??? |
(18 minute short film?) |
|
1948 |
 |
Jitterbugs |
20th. Century Fox |
Laurel & Hardy, Jivin' Jacks and
Jills, Zoot Suits |
Jitterbug |
1943 |
 |
Jitterbug Follies |
M.G.M. |
(Animated Jitterbug Contest) |
Jitterbug |
1939 |
|
Jitterbug Jamboree |
Hearst-Pathe |
Harvest
Moon Ball Shag Dancers (Newsreel) |
Lindy
Hop |
1940 |
 |
Jitterbug Jive |
??? |
Popeye Jitterbug dance contest |
Jitterbug |
1950 |
 |
Jitterbug Knights |
??? |
(Animated) |
|
1939 |
 |
Jitterbug Party |
Paramount Pictures |
Cab Calloway Short, Shim-Sham (Minnie the Moocher) |
Jitterbug |
1935 |
 |
Jitterbugs Jive at Swingeroo |
Paramount Pictures |
- |
Jitterbug |
1938 |
 |
Jittering Jitterbugs |
Harlem |
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Big Apple Scene, Lindy Hop (11 mins) |
Lindy
Hop |
1938 |
|
Jive Introduced to UK |
Pathe |
includes demos, introduction to Audience and How to do it. + Jitterbug |
Jitterbug |
1940's |
|
Jive Junction |
PRC |
Bob Ashley & Jean (Phelps) Veloz, Lenny & Kay Smith, Don Gallaher & Irene Thomas, Johnny Archer (Lindy & Charleston)
|
|
1943 |
|
Jiveroo |
|
No real swing dance, tap and Harry Bay and della, June Taylor Dancers. |
|
1942 |
 |
Jivin' in Bebop |
??? |
Various dancers and Bop Music |
|
1946 |
|
Juke Box Joe's |
??? |
Jack Arkin & Irene Thomas, Lenny Smith & Kay Smith, Jerry Warren (w/ Kay) , Jeanne Phelps-Veloz (w/ Lennie)
|
|
1940s |
 |
Juke Box Rhythm |
Columbia Pictures |
Lenny Smith, Gil and Nicki Brady, Frieda Wyckoff |
|
1959 |
 |
Juke Joint |
Slack Amusement |
Jitterbug Johnnies, Lindy Hop |
Jitterbug |
1947 |
 |
Jumpin' Jive |
??? |
Larry Ceballos |
|
1941 |
 |
Junction 88 |
??? |
(Some dancing, An early all-Black musical) |
|
1947 |
 |
Junior Jive Bombers |
20 minute Short Film |
Leroy Prinz (Haven't Seen This One) |
|
1944 |
|
Junior
Prom |
Monogram |
Dean
Collins, Jewel
mcGowen, Hal
Takier, Lenny
Smith and more (also see teenagers) |
|
1946 |
 |
Keep
Punchin' |
Sack Amusement |
[Lindy
Hop, Big Apple, Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers] |
Lindy
Hop |
1939 |
 |
Kid Dynamite |
Monogram |
Dean
Collins, Jewel
McGowen, Leo Gorcey, Kay Marvis |
|
1943 |
 |
Killer
Diller |
All American |
Frankie Manning, Russell Williams, Ann Johnson, Willa Mae Rickter, Lindy
Hop, the CONGEROO'S |
Lindy
Hop |
1948 |
 |
Last Of The Blonde Bombshells |
TV |
- |
|
2000 |
 |
Let's
Go Collegiate |
Monogram |
- |
|
1941 |
|
Let's
Make Music |
R.K.O. |
Freda
Angela Wyckoff, Dean
Collins & Jewel
McGowan & Bertha Lee, Pat Eggar Havenhill, Tommy
Silvius, Lawrence "Lolly" Wise |
|
1940 |
 |
Let Me Off Uptown |
Official Films, Inc |
[Lindy
Hop Couple] |
Lindy
Hop |
1942 |
 |
Limit Up! [DVD] |
Virgin Visi
|
Jim Fisk, Nancy Beth Orr, |
West
Coast Swing |
1989 |
 |
Little Mothers, 40 |
??? |
Lawrence Lolly Wise, ?? |
|
1940 |
|
Living It Up [DVD] |
Paramount Pictures |
Lawrence Lolly Wise, Jerry Lewis, Sheree North, Tommy Silvius, Jack Carey & Loraine Edwards, Dean Collins & Jewel McGowan, Roy Damron, Danny Donahoe & Freda Angela Wyckoff, Pat Eggars Havenhill & Sheila O'Hare Lennie Smith & Helen |
West Coast Swing, Jitterbug |
1954 |
 |
Love n' Dancing [DVD] |
Screen Media |
Jordan and Tatianna, Kyle and Sarah, John Lindo, Ben Morris and more |
West Coast Swing |
2009 |
|
Mad Youth |
(Atlas)
Willis Kent |
Ray Hirsch & Patti Lacey, Betty Atkinson, Eugene Taylor, Maxine Taylor, Aileen Morris, Pearl Tolson |
Collegiate Shag |
1940 |
|
Maharaja |
Soundies Corp. |
Hal & Betty Takier |
Jitterbug, Bal-Swing, Partner Charleston, |
1943 |
 |
$ Make Mine Music [DVD] |
Disney |
(animated Lindy Scene to Benny Goodman) |
Lindy Hop |
1946 |
 |
Malcolm X |
Warner Brothers |
Sonny Allen, John Festa, Norma Miller, Ryan Francois, |
Lindy Hop |
1992 |
 |
Manhattan Merry Go Round |
Republic |
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Tamara Geva |
Lindy Hop |
1937 |
 |
$ Minnie The Moocher |
MPI |
Cab Calloway |
|
1991 |
 |
$ Minnie The Moocher |
MPI |
Cab Calloway Short |
|
1942 |
 |
Miracle at Morgans Creek |
Paramount Pictures |
(Jitterbug) Betty Hutton does the Jitterbug |
Jitterbug |
1944 |
 |
Moonlight In Havana |
Universal Pictures |
(Jitterbug) Jivin' Jack and Jills, Nicco and Grace, Horton dancers |
Jitterbug |
1942 |
 |
Moon Over Harlem |
Stack |
(Stars: Ozinetta Wilcox, Cora Green. ) |
|
1939 |
 |
Movietone Jitterbug News Reel |
20th. Century Fox |
(??) |
Jitterbug |
9/1946 |
 |
Mr. and Mr. Smith |
Warner Brothers |
small scene with Mongomery and Lombard |
Lindy Hop |
1941 |
 |
Mr. Bug Goes to Town |
Paramount Pictures |
(first full length musical cartoon. no swing really) |
|
1941 |
 |
Mr. Rock and Roll |
Paramount Pictures |
(Swing dancing ) |
|
1957 |
 |
$ Music & Comedy Masters V.2 |
??? |
(see "Jittering Jitterbugs") |
Jitterbug |
19?? |
 |
$ Mystery in Swing |
Aetna, Int'l |
International Lindy Hoppers, Tiny Bunch, Cab also swings |
Lindy Hop |
1940 |
 |
$ Mystic Pizza [DVD] |
??? |
Julia Roberts, ??, (short kitchen scene) |
|
1988 |
 |
Nat'l Geographic Explorer |
T.V. |
(Jitterbug has clips, Lindy Hop |
Jitterbug, Lindy Hop |
1989 |
|
Naughty But Nice |
Warner Brothers |
Maxie Dorf & Midge Dare, Connie Weidell
|
|
1939 |
 |
Ocean Hop, The |
??? |
(Animated (anyone seen this?) |
|
1927 |
 |
Old Boston A-Jive with Jitterbugs |
Paramount Pictures |
- |
|
1938 |
 |
Once Upon A Time |
Columbia |
George Tyne, dancing Worm |
|
1944 |
 |
Orchestra Wives |
20th. Century Fox |
Nicholas Brothers, Tap - Brief swing dance! |
|
1942 |
 |
Outline of Jitterbug History |
Soundies Corp. |
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers |
Lindy Hop |
1942 |
 |
Paradise in Harlem |
Jubilee / Timeless |
(Harlem Musical / Drama, no swing) |
|
1939 |
|
Peckin' (New Faces of 1937) |
Soundies Corp. |
Chocolateers, |
Lindy Hop |
1942 |
 |
Phony Boy |
R.K.O. |
1937 Collegiate Shag Winners |
|
1937 |
 |
Playmates |
R.K.O. |
Dean Collins, Jewel McGowen, Lupe Velez, Kay Kyser |
|
1941 |
 |
Policy Man |
??? |
(Count Basie Orchestra) |
|
1938 |
 |
Pot O' Gold |
??? |
Jewel McGowen, Jitterbug, Rumba |
Jitterbug |
1941 |
|
Powers Girl, The |
United |
Dean Collins, Jewel McGowen, John Ashley, Irene Thomas, Goodman, George Murphy |
|
1942 |
 |
Prisoner of Swing |
Vitaphone Short |
Leon James, Hal Leroy, Frankie Manning, Al Minns |
|
1938 |
 |
Private Buckaroo |
Universal Pictures |
Jivin' Jacks and Jills |
Jitterbug |
1942 |
 |
Public Jitterbug #1 |
Vitaphone Short |
Hal LeRoy and Betty Huton Swing to Tom Emerson's Hillbilly Sextette
|
|
1939 |
 |
Radio City Revels |
R.K.O. |
Tiny Bunch, Dot Johnson, Eddy Davis, George Greenridge, Frankie Manning, Jewel Mcgowen, hw, Ann Miller, Whitey's Lindy Hoppers |
Lindy Hop |
1937 |
 |
Readin' Ritin' And Rhythm |
R.K.O. |
Lucky Millinder, Don Byas, Short film, (Eight Raggle Taggles: New Jersey Winners?), |
Lindy Hop |
1939 |
 |
Ride 'Em Cowboy |
Universal Pictures |
Dean Collins, Jewel McGowen, Dorothy Dandridge, Three Congeroos, |
|
1942 |
 |
Ringside Masie |
??? |
Roy Lester and Ann Sothern |
|
1941 |
 |
Rock a Bye Baby |
Vista Vision |
Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell |
Jitterbug |
1958 |
 |
Rock and Roll Review |
Studio Films |
Honey Coles and Cholly Atkins (Tap) |
, Tap |
1955 |
 |
Rock Around the Clock |
Columbia Pictures |
Lenny Smith, Lou Southern, Freda Wyckoff, eb, ld |
|
1956 |
 |
Rock, Rock, Rock |
Columbia Pictures |
Alan Freed, Tuesday Weld, ECS, |
|
1956 |
 |
Rock you Sinners |
??? |
Early European East Coast style Jitterbug Jive |
Jitterbug |
1957 |
 |
Roxie Hart |
20th. Century Fox |
Ginger Rogers, |
Black Bottom |
1942 |
 |
Running Wild |
Universal Pictures |
Gil and Nicki Brady, Lennie Smith, Lou Southern |
|
1955 |
 |
Saludos Amigos |
Disney |
Joe Carioca, the Brazilian Jitterbird |
|
1953 |
 |
Sally Swing |
Paramount Pictures |
Betty Boop throws a Swing Dance, Introduces Sally Swing |
Jitterbug |
1938 |
|
Savoy Ballroom Exhibit |
Home Film (Prelinger) |
1939 New York Worlds Fair |
Lindy |
1939 |
 |
Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat |
Animated |
Racial Slurs and Sterotypical racist scenes |
Lindy Hop |
1941 |
 |
Sepia Cinderella |
Herald Pictures |
Tondaleyo, Lindy Hop, Tap, |
Lindy Hop, Tap |
1947 |
|
Sensations of 1945 |
United Artists |
Dean Collins, Jewel McGowen, Irene Thomas, Johnny & Jenny Duncan, Bertha Lee
|
Jitterbug |
1945 |
 |
Shag,
The Movie |
MGM / UA |
Thigpens, Kenny Ortega |
|
1988 |
 |
Shake,
Rattle and Rock |
United Artists |
??? |
Jitterbug |
1956 |
 |
Since
You Went Away |
M.G.M. |
Shirley Temple,
Nazimova, airline hanger scene |
Jitterbug |
1944 |
 |
Sing
a Jingle |
Universal Studios |
Dean
Collins, |
|
1943 |
 |
The
Sky's The Limit |
??? |
Fred
Astaire, Joan Leslie |
|
1943 |
|
Sonny Watson & Tracy Adams |
US Open '87 |
Sonny and Tracy do fast West Coast Swing & Flying Lindy - US Open Showcase clip. |
West Coast Swing |
1987 |
 |
Sophmore Swing [Musical Short] |
Vitaphone Short |
Harvest
Moon Ball dancers |
|
1939 |
 |
Spirit of the Dance [Newsreel] |
Paramount News |
Harvest Moon Ball |
Lindy
Hop |
1948 |
 |
Spirit
Of Youth, the |
A Harlem Studio |
Big Apple Dancers |
Lindy
Hop |
1938 |
 |
Springtime
in the Rockies |
20th. Century Fox |
Dean
Collins, Jewel
McGowen, Betty
Grable, Cesar Romero |
|
1942 |
 |
Stage
Door Canteen |
United |
Irene Thomas, Arthur Walsh, Jack Arkin, Ray Bolger, George Raft, Gypsy
Rose Lee, Bands |
Jitterbug |
1943 |
 |
Stalag 17 |
Paramount Pictures |
(choreo by ernest lazlo) |
|
1953 |
 |
Stand Up and Cheer |
20th. Century Fox |
Maxie Dorf, Mary McCasslin, Lolly Wise |
|
1938 |
|
Start Cheering |
Columbia Pictures |
Arthur Murray Dancers, Maxie Dorf & Mary McCasslin, Lawrence 'Lolly' Wise
|
AM Shag, Tap, Big Apple, Cutaway |
1938 |
 |
Stomping at the Savoy |
T.V. |
?? |
|
199? |
 |
Stormy Weather |
20th. Century Fox |
Nicholas Brothers, Lindy Hop |
Lindy Hop, Tap |
1943 |
 |
Strike Up The Band |
M.G.M. |
Lolly Wise, louise decamp, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland |
|
1940 |
 |
Sugar Hill Masquerade |
Soundies |
Whiteys Lindy Hoppers, |
Lindy Hop |
1942 |
 |
Summer Stock |
??? |
Dick Humphreys, Gene Kelly and Judy
Garland, ECS |
East Coast Swing |
1950 |
 |
Sun Valley Serenade |
??? |
Nicholas Brothers, No Swing dance, Benny Goodman, |
Tap |
1941 |
 |
Sunday Sinners |
Timeless |
(haven't seen this one, Harlem Movie, Lindy Hop) |
Lindy Hop |
1940 |
 |
Swing |
??? |
(Harlem, Tyler twins dancers) |
Lindy Hop, Tap |
1938 |
 |
Swing Cat's Jamboree |
??? |
(features Louis Prima and Dancers) |
|
1938 |
|
Swing Fever |
M.G.M. |
Lenny Smith, Jean Phelps-Veloz, Donald Gallagher, Johnny Duncan, Jay Eaton, |
|
1943 |
 |
Swing High |
??? |
- |
|
1930 |
 |
Swing Hostess |
??? |
- |
|
1944 |
 |
Swing Hotel |
??? |
John & Edna Torrance (Not Seen!!!)
|
|
1939 |
 |
Swing It Professor |
??? |
- |
|
- |
 |
Swing Kids |
Hollywood / Touchstone |
Otis Sallid, Ryan Francois, Lindy Hop (Too Many To List)
|
Lindy Hop |
1992 |
 |
Swing Parade of 1946 |
??? |
- |
|
1946 |
 |
Swing School |
??? |
- |
|
1938 |
 |
Swing Shift Cinderella
|
??? |
(Animated) |
|
1945 |
 |
Swing Street |
(Maybe called Copacabana) |
(TV: Barry Manilow Special (Big Fun) |
|
1988? |
 |
Swing, Swing, Swing |
Vitaphone Short |
(Swing and Collegiate Shag scenes) |
|
1937 |
 |
Swingers |
Miramax |
(very little dance), Lindy Hop |
Lindy Hop |
1996 |
 |
Swingin' The Dream |
??? |
- |
|
1939 |
 |
Swinging the Blues |
??? |
(???? swing clips) |
|
19?? |
 |
Symphony of Swing |
??? |
available
on Swing Swing Swing |
Collegiate Shag |
1939 |
|
Tabby The Cat |
??? |
Dean Collins |
|
1945 |
 |
Talk
of the Town [DVD] |
Columbia |
Dean
Collins, |
|
1942 |
|
Teenagers at the Junior Prom |
Monogram |
Dean Collins, Jewel McGowen. (See Junior Prom) |
|
1946 |
 |
Texaco's Swing into Swing |
??? |
(Television show) |
|
- |
|
Texas Tommy (=2 clips) |
??? |
unknown dancers |
|
1928 |
 |
That Certain Feeling |
Paramount Pictures |
Gil and Nikki Brady |
|
1956 |
 |
The Big Apple |
??? |
Arthur Murray Big Apple Dancers |
|
1930s |
 |
The Spirit Moves |
Mura Dehn |
Savoy Ballroom Documentary. |
Lindy Hop |
1950 |
|
The Call of the Jitterbug |
AMC |
TV Documentary on the Jitterbug. |
Jitterbug, Lindy Hop |
1980s |
 |
They All Kissed The Bride |
Columbia |
Dean Collins, |
|
1942 |
 |
Thrill of A Lifetime |
M.G.M. |
??? (Big Apple Scene), Daniels & Matthews |
|
1937 |
 |
Till the End of Time |
RKO |
Lenny Smith, LA dancers, Chor by Dean Collins, Guy Madison, Jean Porter, |
|
1946 |
 |
To Hell and Back |
??? |
(Short swing scene) |
|
1955 |
 |
Triple Boogie |
??? |
- |
|
1948 |
 |
True to the Army |
Universal Pictures |
Jivin' Jacks and Jills |
Jitterbug |
1942 |
 |
Trumpet Serenade |
Universal Pictures |
Jivin' Jacks and Jills |
Jitterbug |
1942 |
 |
Tuxedo Junction |
??? |
Lenox Hoppers |
Lindy
Hop |
- |
 |
Twice Blessed |
M.G.M. |
Hal
Takier & Alice
Scott, Lenny
& Kay Smith, Wally & "Mousie"
Albright, Freda
Angela Wyckoff, Bob Ashley, Chuck Saggau |
Jitterbug |
1945 |
 |
Two Shadows |
Vitaphone Short |
??? |
Big Apple |
1938 |
 |
Untamed
Youth |
Warner Brothers |
Frieda
Angela Wyckoff, Joe
Lanza, Gil
and Nicki Brady |
|
1957 |
 |
Varisty Show |
??? |
Buck
and Bubbles, Betty & Tommy Wonder |
Jitterbug , Tap |
1937 |
 |
Vitaphone Public #1 |
Vitaphone Short |
- |
|
- |
 |
Young Ideas |
M.G.M. |
Dean
Collins, Jewel
McGowen |
|
1943 |
 |
Youth On Trial |
??? |
(good Swing dance scene) |
|
1945 |
 |
What's Cookin' |
??? |
Jivin' Jacks and Jills |
Jitterbug |
1942 |
 |
Wizard of Oz. (Cut Scene) |
??? |
(cut Jitterbug Tree Scene! - Not in Movie release) |
Jitterbug |
1939 |
 |
Woody Herman and His Orchestra |
Vitaphone Short |
Hal & Honey Abbott |
Lindy
Hop |
1938 |
 |
World Series of the Dance |
Paramount News |
1946, |
|
Various |
 |
Zoot
Suit [DVD] |
M.C.A. |
Olmos (El-Pachuco), Salsa, Latin Swing |
Jitterbug |
1981 |