Best Dance Routine Ever

Here's the kind of entertainment you'd be hard-pressed to find in a modern movie or TV show. It's a scene from the 1943 film "Stormy Weather," starring Lena Horne and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, although neither of them are in this scene, which takes place in a nightclub where Cab Calloway is performing "Jumpin' Jive" with his big band. At one point he strolls over to a corner of the audience where the Nicholas Brothers (Harold and Fayard) pop up from their chairs and completely take over. What follows is what many -- including no less an expert than Fred Astaire -- consider the greatest dance routine ever captured on film...


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