Women’s History Month: Norma Miller!

Norma Miller: author and lindy hopping queen.

Miller and Leon James are the second couple in this sequence from Day at the Races (1937):

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Miller (dancing with George Greenidge) is half of the sixth couple in the jam during the jitterbug contest section of Keep Punchin’ (1939):


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Miller dances with Billy Ricker, as the second couple in the iconic scene fromHellzapoppin’ (1941):


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Miller is in the Hot Chocolates/Cottontail (1941) soundie, but I’m not sure which dancer she is:

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There are some interesting photos of Norma Miller, Frankie Manning and other dancers in the Getty Images collection.

[Once again I’m using Bobby’s article about iconic clilps to identify dancers.]

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