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Joe Frisco
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Joe Frisco, 1931
How comedian/dancer/actor
Joe Frisco
, seen in this clip from the American Masters documentary
Vaudeville
, executed this precision act without swallowing that stogie like a cartoon character, I'll never know.
Without a doubt, if Michael Jackson ever saw this clip, he would have tried to incorporate these nimble dance floor moves into this terpsichorian bag o' tricks. Maybe Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly saw Frisco's act and did just that.
Joe Frisco appears in
Happy Hottentots
, one of numerous Vitaphone musical shorts on the
Al Jolson: The Jazz Singer - Three Disc Deluxe Edition
. For more information on genuine vaudeville that was filmed at the dawn of
talkies, check out
The Vitaphone Project.
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