Digging into Joe Donahue, talented vaudevillian dancer who replaced his late brother, Jack, opposite Marilyn Miller in the film version of Sunny. He also appeared in Expensive Women and two Dorothy Mackaill titles during his stay with First National, 1930-31. Piecing together some of the mysterious Donahue’s life and discovering, once and for all, the date he died.
Ann Pennington and the Black Bottom Dance
Pennington hit Broadway in 1911 and first appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1913. Primarily a dancer who could sing some too, Pennington established herself …
