Nicholas Brothers Tap Dancing in the Movies

Tap Dances in Films

1930's Films

- Pie, Pie Blackbird (1932) Short Film | Tap Dances |
- The Emperor Jones (1933) (Harold Only)
- Syncopancy (1933) Short Film (Harold Only)
- Kid Millions (1934)
= An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935) Short Film
- Coronado (1935)
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
- The Black Network (1936) Short Film
- My American Wife (1936)
- Babes in Arms (1937)
- Calling All Stars (1937)
- My Son Is Guilty (1939)

1940's Films

1950's Films

1960's Films

- L'Empire de la Nuit (1963) (Harold Only) | French Film / French Language |

1970's Films

- The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) (Fayard Only)
- Uptown Saturday Night (1974) (Harold Only)
- That's Entertainment! (1974) (archive footage)
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) (archive footage)
- Disco 9000 (1976) (Harold Only)

1980's Films

- That's Dancing! (1985) (archive footage)
- Tap (1989) (Harold Only)

1990's Films

- That's Black Entertainment (1990) (archive footage)
- The Five Heartbeats (1990) (Harold Only)
- "Alright" (Janet Jackson song) and video (1992)
- The Nicholas Brothers: We Sing and We Dance (1992)
- Funny Bones (1995) (Harold Only)

2000's Films

- I Used to Be in Pictures (2000)
- Night at the Golden Eagle (2002) (Fayard Only)
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
- Hard Four (2005)

Short Films

Pie Pie Blackbird (1932)
Vitaphone short film starring Eubie Blake and His Band featuring Nina Mae McKinney. The Nicholas appear in an uncredited role as two small boys who perform a tap dance about 8 minutes into the film.

All Colored Vaudeville Show (1935)
Warner brothers short film with two tap dancing scenes, an untitled dance performed by the Nicholas Brothers and Adelaide Hall performing a short tap dance near the end of her song "To Have You, To Hold You". The film also features Cab Calloway, Eunice Wilson, the 5 Racketeers, and the 3 Whippets.

The Black Network (1936)
Short film

More About Full Length Films

Kid Millions (1934)
Samuel Goldwyn film starring Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, and George Murphy and featuring the Nicholas Brothers tap dancing in their second movie appearance. The duo appears in two numbers, tap dancing together to the song "Mandy" and Harold Nicholas singing and dancing with the Goldwyn girls in "I Want To Be a Minstral Man".

Coronado (1935)
The Nicholas Brothers perform a tap dance on a ship as part of a production number near the end of the film.

YEAR: 1935
TITLE: The Big Broadcast of 1936
ROLE: "Miss Brown To You"
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026113/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Broadcast_of_1936

Down Argentina Way (1940)
The Nicholas brothers sang in Spanish and tapped danced to the song "Down Argentine Way".

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
The Nicholas Brothers appear singing and dancing to the song "Chattanooga Choo Choo" with Dorothy Dandridge. That song was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award.

The Great American Broadcast (1941)
The Nicholas Brothers danced in this film to the song "Alabamy Bound". For more information about the movie see the IMDB Article

Orchestra Wives (1942)
Features the Nicholas Brothers singing and Dancing to t he song "I've Got aGal in Kalamazoo".

Stormy Weather (1943)
The Nicholas' most famous dance was part of this 1043 film losely based on the life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. The film starred Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and Bill Robinson himself in the lead role. The Nicholas Brothers danced to two songs, "My, My, Ain't That Somethin" and their most famous tap dance to song "The Jumpin' Jive"

The Pirate (1948)
The Nicholas Brothers tap danced with Gene Kelly in the musical number entitled "Be a Clown".

Television Appearances

1964
"My Kind of Town" TV Song and Tap Dance

1965
Hollywood Palace TV Song and Tap Dance

When and Where Was This?

"The Song and Dance Man" with Donald O'Connor

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