VELOZ & YOLANDA - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 06/1941 CO-SIGNED BY: VELOZ & YOLANDA (YOLANDA CASAZZA) - HFSID 298986
Sale Price $288.00
Reg. $320.00
VELOZ AND YOLANDA
Shown together in a passionate embrace in this black and white photograph
Inscribed Photograph signed: "To Joseph Peppino,/'Til we eat again./Veloz & Yolanda/June 1941" in blue ink, B/w 8x10. Probably signed by Yolanda. Photograph by Chicago celebrity photographer Maurice Seymour, inscribed to Italian restaurant owner Joseph Peppino. Francisco "Frank" Veloz (1906-1981) met Lolanda "Yolanda" Casazza (1908-1995) in a speakeasy circa 1921. The couple won more than forty dance contests and got married. They became the most famous ballroom exhibition dancers in America, creating several new dances, including the Cobra Tango and the Veolanda. They appeared in Broadway musicals and in several films, including Champagne Waltz (1937) Pride of the Yankees (1942) and Brazil (1944). The climactic dance of George Raft and Carole Lombard in Bolero (1934) is actually danced by Veloz and Yolanda. They were nominated for an Oscar for the Short Subject, Cavalcade of the Dance (1943). Veloz and Yolanda opened a chain of dance studios in southern California, and had a TV dance show in the 1950s. After they divorced, Veloz married another star dancer, Jean Phelps. 1x1½-inch bottom right corner missing. ½x½-inch bottom left corner missing. Lightly creased. Lightly worn. Otherwise, fine condition.
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