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Savoy
No photograph of this dancer yet. We show a portrait only when there is a picture of the person under a licence we can name — a frame lifted from a clip is not one. Their footage is below.
No biography recorded yet. What is known about this dancer is assembled from published sources, and is corrected as we learn more.
1 clip
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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". The upload spells it "Snooky"; Bobby White's index spells it "Snookie". · source
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