Director - Heather Lyn MacDonald
Run Time - 81 minutes
Language - English
Format - Color & B/W
Year - 2005
Genre - Documentary
The youngest is 84, the oldest is 95, and none
is ready to give up dancing yet. The Silver Belles
are a group of classy, sassy hoofers who met in
the 1930s as chorus dancers at the famed Apollo
and Cotton Clubs. There, they learned their trade
and performed with legendary bandleaders and performers
including Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Ella
Fitzgerald. They also formed lifelong friendships.
When the dancers met up again in 1985, they discovered
that they'd lost none of their moves -- and their
performances have been packing in crowds at concert
halls in New York. Director Heather Lyn MacDonald
has created a loving, stereotype-busting portrait
of age-defying women who have never wavered in their
love of dance or of each other.
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