Maxine Sullivan - Some Of These Days

Here is the underrated Maxine Sullivan, who along with Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, was a great lady of jazz. Her smooth, mellow, alluring voice made her one of the most popular singers of the 1930's and 1940's.

Some of the dancers in this soundie are of historic interest as well. A few of the dancing girls in this soundie were Cotton Club chorines, Winnie (Wini) Johnson is the pretty female dancer in the middle. She was maried to actor Stepin Fetchit and also dated actor Canada Lee. While in the Cotton Club chorus line, she danced alongside Lena Horne. Also there's Edna Mae Holly, former wife of Sugar Ray Robinson, she's the beautiful lady with the shoulder length hair and light colored dress, who receives numerous close ups in this soundie, and is playing house with the stick dolls. She was a well-known dancer in her day. She was a Cotton Club dancer. When she married Sugar Ray Robinson, she was famous as his wife and was with him during his important years as a boxer. She appeared on the cover of all the prominent black magazines of the day, Jet, Ebony , Hue, and Tan. On the first issue of Jet magazine, she was the first to appear on the cover, with an expensive mink coat from Sugar Ray. In her last years, she was still active, she taught dancing, was a personal fitness trainer, therapist, and exercise specialist at the YWCA.