Jeni LeGon made her name in the 1930s singing and dancing with other African-American stars such as Bill Bojangles Robinson and Fats Waller. Her biggest role was in the 1935 MGM musical, “Hooray for ...
She was an exuberant Chicago teenager who tapped and shimmied in nightclub revues and became a rare female soloist in the male-dominated dance profession. A chorus girl at 13, she worked her way to ...
Jeni LeGon — who began her musical-theater career at age 13, was known for wearing pants when all the other female dancers wore skirts and battled what she called “frank racism” as one of the first ...
Jeni LeGon made her name in the 1930s singing and dancing with other African-American stars such as Bill Bojangles Robinson and Fats Waller. Her biggest role was in the 1935 MGM musical, “Hooray for ...
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