Anderson, Maceo

▪ 2002

      American tap dancer (b. Sept. 3, 1910, Charleston, S.C.—d. July 4, 2001, Los Angeles, Calif.), was a founding member of the Four Step Brothers, a widely popular tap-dance act. Anderson danced from the age of three. In his early teens he formed a trio of dancers that eventually began performing at the famed Cotton Club in New York City in the mid-1920s. The group became a quartet in the mid-1930s. By the 1940s the Four Step Brothers were the best-known tap-dance act in the nation. Anderson and his fellow dancers regularly appeared at Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy and Paramount theatres in New York City and on The Ed Sullivan Show until they disbanded in the late 1960s. Anderson later taught at his own dance school in Las Vegas, Nev.

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