VELOZ & YOLANDA - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 1935 CO-SIGNED BY: VELOZ & YOLANDA (YOLANDA CASAZZA) - HFSID 21963
Price: $320.00
VELOZ AND YOLANDA. Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Roxy
Altomare,/Veloz and Yolanda/1935". Vintage b/w, 8x10. Probably signed by
Yolanda. 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. Light corner creases. Slightly nicked
in upper right corner. Otherwise, fine condition.
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