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Crip Herd & The Berry Brothers (1948) | Feets Do Your Stuff

Feels Do Your Stuff is a collection of the greatest moments in dance by African-Americans throughout movie history. Here we get a glimpse of Thomas "Crip" Heard followed by The Berry Brothers from the 1948 All-Black Cast feature, Boarding House Blues. ##### Henry "Crip" Heard (November 11, 1924 – September 11, 1991)[1] was an African-American professional dancer who appeared mostly in black vaudeville theaters and nightclubs during the late 1940s and 50s. What distinguished Heard from nearly all his peers was that he was a double amputee, dancing with only one leg and one arm. And lacking a sufficient stump for wearing an artificial leg, he walked using a crutch that he danced both with and without. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Heard became a professional dancer at around age thirteen. In his late teens or early twenties, he lost his right arm and right leg near his home in Memphis, where a train hit the automobile in which he was riding. In his mid twenties, Heard appeared in the 1949 film Boarding House Blues, a black-cast musical comedy. This film starred Moms Mabley as a struggling boarding house proprietor whose tenants rallied to save their home by putting on a show. The film featured performances by black entertainers including Dusty Fletcher, the Berry Brothers, Lucky Millinder, and Una Mae Carlisle. Heard appeared in a two-minute dance sequence, one of the few surviving video recordings of his work. Heard later appeared (possibly in 1951) on the television series You Asked for It in a four-minute performance, during which he did tap dance, the rumba, and the boogie-woogie. Heard was not the only physically challenged African-American artist in history, nor even the only one-legged black professional dancer of his time. Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates, for example, had a long career including dancing twice for the King and Queen of England in the 1930s and appearing 19 times on The Ed Sullivan Show during the 1950s and 60s. A 1955 issue of Jet magazine had a photo of Bates and Heard together, “taking to the air with ease, [tossing] aside their peg and crutch to show their agility during a backstage get-together at the Chicago Theater.” The Berry Brothers were an African-American "exotic, acrobatic soft shoe dance" trio, active in the entertainment business for over 30 years.[1] The trio was composed of Ananias (Nyas, "King of the Strut"), James and Warren Berry. Ananias "Nyas" Berry (Augusts 18, 1913 – October 5, 1951) and James Berry (c. 1915 – 1969) were born to Ananias Berry and Redna Berry in New Orleans. As early as 1919 the two brothers already performed in Chicago and then in Denver where the family settled and the younger Warren (December 25, 1922 – August 10, 1996) was born.[2] In 1924 the family moved to Los Angeles where as child actors Nyas, James and then Warren appeared in several films. In 1929 Nyas and James formed the dance duo "The Berry Brothers." They appeared with Duke Ellington in "Rhythmania" at the Cotton Club. That same year they traveled to London and were featured performers in the critically acclaimed all-African-American revue Blackbirds of 1928. They were the first African American act at the Copacabana in 1929. They appeared in the musical "Rhapsody In Black" in 1931 - wikipedia ##### Reelblack's mission is to educate, elevate, entertain enlighten, and empower through Black film. If there is content shared on this platform that you feel infringes on your intellectual property, please email me at [email protected] and [email protected] with details and it will be promptly removed.