Marion Brown 

American Negro Ballet

Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1939 Playbill - Feb 1939
Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1939 Playbill.

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Marion Brown was a member of the American Negro Ballet, which also featured Al Bledger, Harry Young, and Hazel Spence. Brown appeared in several Broadway shows: Gypsy Love (1911), High Jinks (1913), Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1939 (1939), and This is the Army (1942).

See Marion Brown orbit in From Ballet to Broadway and Black…

Sources:

Marion Brown, Playbill

See also:

Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins

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