Word: hoofers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settlement house "flatfoot waltz" contest. From that he went on to be a dance instructor for Vernon and Irene Castle, among others. When he was making $100 a week, he quit to study business administration at Georgia Tech. Said he: "I didn't want to be a hoofer...
Born. To Monte Proser, 41, Manhattan saloonkeeper, and Jane Ball, 24, stage & screen actress, onetime hoofer at Monte's Copacabana: their first child, a son; in Kingston, N.Y. Name: Charles Morgan. Weight...
Wriggling through all this dense tedium-laudamus, like a Pekingese lost in a shopping rush, is a story. George Raft, a hoofer, marries Vera Zorina, a dancer. But George can think of nothing but camp shows and Vera can think of nothing except their impending baby (about which she is too miffed to tell him), so they part. Before they can make it up Raft dies, a hero, in the Pacific. His widow becomes the pride...
Variety called them the Lady (Kay Francis), the Sweater Girl (Carole Landis), the Hoofer (Mitzi Mayfair) and the Hoyden (Martha Raye). They got together last fall as a pickup team, only slightly acquainted with each other, for a tour of fighting fronts. Last week their "captain," Miss Francis, was home with the liveliest trouper's tale of the war. The four actresses had traveled 37,500 miles, had left the memory of their perfume in camps on three continents, won the praise of General Dwight Eisenhower and established themselves as sweethearts of the A.E.F...
That this depressing story remains above-average entertainment is mainly due to incisive writing (by Scenarists Daniel Fuchs and Peter Viertel), and to direction by Vincent Sherman that results in honest, intelligent acting by an excellent cast. Jack Carson's job as a simpleminded, big-hearted hoofer is masterly; Dennis