The dancers are the Nicholas brothers...two of the most talented dancers in the movies ever. They were still good even when they were older. If they were dancing now, they'd be rich. But I bet they got paid minimally back then.

Who are those guys? I would like to know more about this historical take. Like, how many studio hours they used to perfect this number? What talent, superb choreography!

Nicholas Brothers
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The Nicholas Brothers in Stormy Weather

The Nicholas Brothers were a team of dancing brothers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold (1921–2000), who performed a highly acrobatic technique known as "flash dancing". With a high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many to be the greatest tap dancers of their day. Their performance in the musical number "Jumpin' Jive" (with Cab Calloway and his orchestra) featured in the movie Stormy Weather is considered by many to be the most virtuosic dance display of all time.

Growing up surrounded by vaudeville acts as children, they became stars of the jazz circuit during the heyday of the Harlem Renaissance and went on to have successful careers performing on stage, film, and television well into the 1990s.

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Savion Glover, who is credited with a resurgent interest in tap, says that the Nicholas Brothers were an inspiration to him.

Saw them in a test run for a musical in Paris in mid-50's that then opened in London.
Stays in your mind once seen!

.... you gotta be in top shape to do that.

You don't get to see anything better than that!

I remember those guys from my youth. (Early 50's) They were already justifiably famous by then, mostly through videos like this one.

R&K

Thank you so much for posting. It's awful to contemplate the discrimination they had to endure, and yet they brought such joy to millions of people. This looks like it's from the 30s or 40s. I was born in 1944 and never attended an integrated school until I went to college in 1962. I remember being very happy to have black kids in my classes and to actually have the opportunity to get to know them. This was in Texas. I ended up transferring to a school in NY and was thrilled to get out of the South.

I've NEVER been that limber in my whole life! I was a wirey and agile teen - but nothing like this! LOVED watching this! Thanx!