Eva Slater

Eva Slater posed in a brief costume with striped skirt and matching head dress.(ca. 1860-1910)  
 photograph by Webster & Albee.                                                                                                                                                                                            

NYPL | New York (City) Museum of Modern Art photographs

Jessie Mathews

Jessie Mathews in a Noel Coward Revue - UK - 24 March 1928

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Ruth St. Denis

Ruth St. Denis in Radha. (1906) 

digitalgallery.nypl | Denishawn Collection | The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts / Jerome Robbins Dance Division | White Studio (New York, N.Y.) -- Photographer

Ada Smith Ducongé

Bricktop outside of her famous Montmartre club.

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop, (August 14, 1894 — February 1, 1984) was an American dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris. (Photographed in Paris on June 22, 1934) 

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Rita Rio

Rita Rio and Her Orchestra 1939

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Dancer and Skeleton (just a little strange)

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Nina Payne

Nina Payne, an American dancer who flourished in Paris.

Source: etund

Dorothy Waring

Dorothy Waring

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Betti Mays

Betti Mays was a dancer, singer and popular chorus girl in the 1940's. She  appeared in soundies and films. 

Source: flickrhivemind

Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky as the in Le Spectre de la Rose, 1911 

Source: avanishedtime | LOC

Fernando Pasta

Fernando Pasta - La danseuse Jia Ruskaia, étoile de la Scala de Milan, 1931-35. 

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Pearl Germond

Pearl Germond as « Moonlight », Ziegfeld Follies Midnight Frolic, Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1918 

Source: leblogdesovena

Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor, (January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964), born Edward Israel Iskowitz, in New York City. After becoming a smash hit in vaudeville, Ziegfeld signed him for his Midnight Frolics and then the Follies of his Midnight Frolics and then the Follies of 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1923.  From there he went to films in the 1920s, starring in Whoopee, Kid from Spain and Kid Millions. Eddie Cantor was an American  performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter.

Source: ziegfeldgrrl

Jean Ackerman

Jean Ackerman, Ziegfeld girl

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Egyptian Dancer

"Egyptian Dancer" from the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893 

Source: loc.gov | Library of Congress via pingnews | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Harriet Hoctor

Harriet Hoctor, (September 25, 1905 — June 9, 1977) was a ballerina, dancer, actress and instructor from Hoosick Falls, New York. Composer George Gershwin composed a symphonic orchestral piece specifically for Hoctor in the film Shall We Dance.

Source: hello-tuesday | whataboutbobbed

Florence Mills

The effervescent Florence Mills, (January 25, 1896 – November 1, 1927), was one of the most charismatic African American performers of the 1920s. Mills was an African-American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian known for her effervescent stage presence, delicate voice, and winsome, wide-eyed beauty. Artist Edward Jean Steichen,  c. 1924

Source: Smithsonian Institution | National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Gaby Deslys

Gaby Deslys wearing Paquin, 1913 or ‘14 

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Ann Miller

Johnnie Lucille Collier, known professionally as Ann Miller, (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was an American dancer, singer and actress. She is remembered for her work in Hollywood musical films of the 1940s and '50s. Ann Miller started her Hollywood career in low-budget films between 1937 and 1946, before she became a star in major films.  After her film career she danced in nightclubs and in 1979 she was in the Broadway hit "Sugar Babies."

Source: doctormacro

Buddy Ebsen

Buddy Ebsen, 1936, girls

Christian Rudolph Ebsen, Jr., known as Buddy Ebsen (April 2, 1908 - July 6, 2003), was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the 1993 movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies. Ebsen also played Fess Parker's sidekick in Walt Disney's Davy Crockett miniseries (1953–54), and was cast as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939) until he fell ill from an allergy to the makeup.

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