The Real "Black Bottom" Dance
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
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- 3 / 6
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- NoS Summary - Mildred Melrose dances from Piccadilly Cabaret.
British Pathe synopsis: Miss Mildred Melrose, a well known dancer at the Piccadilly Cabaret demonstrates the "real" Black Bottom dance. Mildred wears a fringed outfit comprising very short shorts and a little bikini top. She does some wild dancing, shaking her bottom and every other part of her body. The dance incorporates pointing her fingers, kicking her legs from side to side, patting her own bottom and generally enjoying herself. "Now we know just where the Charleston challenger steps spring from!" reads an intertitle. - Researcher Comments
- British Pathe - Costume designed by Dolly Tree.
- Keywords
- Music and dance
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 17 March 1927 p74.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.99
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP099 Used for synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p172.
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