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Photos and Videos of Frankie Manning

Press Photos

Whyte’s Hopping Maniacs performing with “Le Cotton Club de New York” at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, summer 1937. (left to right) Naomi Waller and Frankie Manning, Lucille Middleton and Jerome Williams, Mildred Cruse and Billy Williams. Photo credit: studio c. bracken

Lucille Middleton and Frankie Manning doing drop-down-the-back while on tour with Hollywood Hotel Revue in New Zealand, summer 1938. Photo credit: Steele

Frankie Manning arriving in Sydney Harbor while on tour with Hollywood Hotel Revue, fall 1938. Jerome Williams and Willamae Ricker in background.

Frankie Manning leading the shim sham at a swing dance event in Arizona, 1999. Photo Credit: Albert T. Parker

Frankie Manning performing squat Charleston, circa late 1980s. Photo credit: Ralph Gabriner

Classic Footage

(Pre-1980s)