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Author:	[Penalty Box] Topic: RIP :Juanita Boisseau
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Banned Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 13782 Location:	#1 Posted: 5/29/2012 11:38:41 AM
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Banned Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 13782 Location:	#2 Posted: 5/29/2012 11:39:47 AM Last of the Cotton Club girls: Legendary dancer who starred at Harlem's notorious 'whites-only' venue dies aged 100
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Banned Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 13782 Location:	#3 Posted: 5/29/2012 11:40:28 AM One of the original dancers at a world famous jazz club in which some of the biggest names in music have performed has died. Juanita Boisseau, who starred at the legendary Cotton Club in New York, died last week at the age of 100. She began performing at the notorious Harlem club - which was a white-only establishment - in the early 1930s.
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Banned Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 13782 Location:	#4 Posted: 5/29/2012 11:41:03 AM Legendary: Juanita Boisseau worked with some of the Jazz world's most famous musicians at the club which included Lena Horne, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
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Banned Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 13782 Location:	#5 Posted: 5/29/2012 11:41:40 AM Popular: The club was open from 1923 to 1940. This picture was taken in 1937 and shows American bandleader and singer Cab Calloway leading an orchestra during a New Year's Ball
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Banned Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 13782 Location:	#6 Posted: 5/29/2012 11:42:46 AM The club was open from 1923 to 1940 - notably through the Prohibition Era. Despite many of the greatest African-American entertainers ever to have performed at the club, it was a white-only establishment. Among those who performed at the Cotton Club are Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie and Billie Holiday.
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Banned Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 13782 Location:	#7 Posted: 5/29/2012 11:43:19 AM Chorus girls at the club wore skimpy outfits and were expected to be at least feet 6 inches tall, light-skinned and under the age of 21. Blues singer Etta James mentioned the Cotton Club as an influence in her 1995 autobiography, Rage to Survive. She wrote: 'I wanted to be rare, I wanted to be noticed, I wanted to be exotic as a Cotton Club chorus girl, and I wanted to be obvious as the most flamboyant hooker on the street. I just wanted to be.'
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Banned Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 13782 Location:	#8 Posted: 5/29/2012 11:43:42 AM that's all
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