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What else do I love besides silent films? The Ziegfeld Follies. The costumes and shows and the girls and the talent...just amazing. I don't think it could be recreated today. I am sure it would have amazing visual effects nowadays, but back then...it was new and state of the art. It was also during a time of gayness, frivolity, and devil-may-care attitudes. I wish I was around for that! If I had been around during that time, I picture being a Ziegfeld Girl, then a silent film actress, and…

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We've all heard of the Charleston dance, and seen it performed in numerous movies, but by 1927, that dance had been replaced as a favorite among America's Dancing Daughters by the Black Bottom. . The Black Bottom is based on a dance that had been around in black communities of the South since at least the early 1900s--and as it began to gain national popularity, one dancer stated that it was "as old as the hills." It came to national attention when it was performed in variety shows in Harlem…

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