I just stumbled across this clip of Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire dancing ‘The Shorty George’ in the movie You Were Never Lovelier (1942). A nice, if slightly odd, little tribute to one of our legends, George “Shorty” Snowden. George was a first generation Lindy Hopper at the Savoy Ballroom, and not only created the jazz step that bears his name – The Shorty George – but legend has it, he’s the one that gave Lindy Hop its name too.

Here is (the real) Shorty George dancing with his partner, Big Bea:

And I just uploaded a high-res version of After Seben (1929) to YouTube. Shorty George is the third dancer, announced as ‘Shorty Stumps”. The emcee (in blackface) is James Barton: