Alice Barker
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Alice Barker was a chorus-line dancer during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s.[1]
Life[edit]
Born in 1912[2], Barker gained fame from a YouTube video titled “102 y/o Dancer Sees Herself on Film for the First Time” uploaded in April 2015. The video shows Barker watching herself dance in vintage film clips.[1][3] She danced in films with notable artists such as Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Gene Kelly, and Frank Sinatra. However, her last name was often misspelled as Baker in film credits.[2]
Work[edit]
Barker performed in Soundies, short films made for movie jukeboxes or Panoramas. These featured Black singers, dancers, and musicians. Notable Soundies include:
- Legs Ain’t No Good (1942)
- Chatter (uncredited)
- Jive Comes to the Jungle (uncredited)
- Jungle Jamboree (uncredited)[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "See 102-Year-Old Alice Barker's Sweet Reaction to Films of Her Dancing In '30s and '40s". ABC News. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lewis-Smith, Christopher (2016-12-01). "A brief history of the dancer/camera relationship". Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), the. 5 (1–2): 142–156. doi:10.1386/miraj.5.1-2.142_1. ISSN 2045-6298.
- ↑ "Watch 102-Year-Old Former Star See Footage Of Her Young Self Dancing For The First Time". HuffPost. 2015-04-22. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
- ↑ Delson, Susan (2021). Soundies and the changing image of Black Americans on screen : one dime at a time. Bloomington, Indiana. ISBN 978-0-253-05855-3. OCLC 1272998619. Search this book on
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