A Few More Resources
Changing Manners & Morals in the 1920s:
https://www.lsrhs.net/departments/history/ShenM/Site/20th_classwork,_handouts_files/Changes%20in%20Everyday%20Life%20in%20the%201920s.pdf
Good News (1947)
Heads Up! (1930)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Animal Crackers (1929)
Singing in the Rain (1952)
Forms of Variety Theatre:
About Vaudeville:
1920s dance featuring the Charleston, the Peabody, the
Turkey Trot and more:
The Black Bottom:
1920s Music:
1920s Dance Styles:
1920s Slang:
http://www.citrus.k12.fl.us/staffdev/social%20studies/PDF/Slang%20of%20the%201920s.pdf
Suggested Viewing:
YouTube:
“Fit as a Fiddle” from Singing in the Rain
Burns & Allen: Lambchops
Clips from The Cocoanuts
Clips from Top Hot
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, “Night and Day” from The Gay Divorcee’
Movies
http://www.citrus.k12.fl.us/staffdev/social%20studies/PDF/Slang%20of%20the%201920s.pdf
Suggested Viewing:
YouTube:
“Fit as a Fiddle” from Singing in the Rain
Burns & Allen: Lambchops
Clips from The Cocoanuts
Clips from Top Hot
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, “Night and Day” from The Gay Divorcee’
Movies
(Note: in interviews, the creative team has said that they watched movies from the early 1930s to get a feel for the time and the original cast also watched them to inspire character.)
Good News (1947)
Heads Up! (1930)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Animal Crackers (1929)
Singing in the Rain (1952)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Top Hat 1935
The Artist (2011)
