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The newreel item title card continues, “A Broadway star, Marie Saxon, illustrates a step from down in old Virginia”.
“Even though Fox Movietone News embraced sound, Fox News continued silent until 1930, presenting stories like this one. Latest Dance Creation is ‘Sugar Foot Strut’ may seem perfect for sound presentation, especially in view of Louis Armstrong’s famed recording of “Sugar Foot Strut” of the same year, but today the silence gives prominence [to] the dance and its creator, famed choreographer Charles “Buddy” Bradley ... By 1927 his “Sugar Foot Strut” had become the rage. At the Billy Pierce Dance studio, he taught the steps to socialites and up-and-coming Broadway stars Eleanor Powell, Fred Astaire, and Marie Saxon, who demonstrates it here. Soon after this news story, Saxon danced her way to Hollywood, where she starred in The Broadway Hoofer (1929)” - National Film Preservation Foundation, USA; www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/latest-dance-craze; retrieved 24/03/2016.
Preserved, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , as part of the National Film Preservation Foundation/ New Zealand Film Archive repatriation programme of 2009- 2013.