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...dancer Josephine Baker. In 1937 the brothers so impressed the choreographer George Balanchine with their dancing that they were cast in his production of Rodgers and Hart’s musical Babes in Arms. That same year they made their first trip to Europe with the all-black cast of Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds.
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