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- Norma Miller and Frankie Manning were both consultants on the Lindy Hop dance scene at the Roseland Ballroom. However, only Frankie Manning has been given credit as a dance consultant. Otis Sallid/choreographer said "Just for the record. I studied for a month with Frankie Manning so that the work in this film would be accurate. I brought him and Norma Miller on as a consultant so that the larger world would know and revere them."- IMDb Mini Biography By: Valerie Salstrom
- She was a dancer, comedian and big-band singer who helped popularize the acrobatic Lindy Hop in the 1930s and 1940s.
- Her parents were immigrants from Barbados.
- Friends with Redd Foxx.
- At age 15, she joined Whitey's Lindy Hoppers as the dance troupe's youngest member. They toured Europe, the United States and South America.
- She appeared in several documentaries on swing dance and jazz, and taught at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii. She received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2003.
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