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Leon James
Savoy
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What we know
No biography recorded yet. What is known about this dancer is assembled from published sources, and is corrected as we learn more.
Every identification below names the person who made it. We host none of this footage — each clip is
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1937
Identified by JiveSwing.Com — "Lindy Hop Scene in the movie Day at The Races (1937) with Whiteys Lindy Hoppers... Dancers: Dorothy Miller & Johnny Smalls / Norma Miller & Leon James / Snooky Beasley & Willa Mae Ricker / Ella Gibson & George Greenidge". A clean profile. The library already holds #5569 "Leon James on DuPont Show of the Week" (a title fragment, the mint bug) and #5571 "Lean James" (a misspelling). Neither is merged here — see the #383 rule. ·
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