Roof Garden party from 1929 - Dancing and Jazzy Music

[LaBelleParisienne1]

I don't see why the skinny are being victimized in response to a video. At any size, it's inappropriate to criticize a woman's figure!

[midiout]

Looks like an exercise class.

[perfectjazz78]

@midiout Yep, it shoure does !

[MegaAlbaby]

Men (and some women?) preferred their goyls with some meat on 'em! skinny gives ya nothin' to hold on to...

[MrSonnenaufgang]

Those were the days, very nice

[tapdancegirl88]

mmm god... i wish they would bring back those type of tap shoes

[ziggycat999]

Nice liking female figures,well rounded, What ever happened that girls look that way ??

[TheGranule]

I bet Jeeves is in the audience taking notes for Bertie Wooster!

[fabfaruk]

@TheGranule I get the Jeeves joke. I watch that series through NETFLIX. It is a real hoot.  Love the actors and especially the opening and closing theme music. Cheers.

[hebneh]

Not the most precise choreography I've ever witnessed.

Based on the opening intertitle - a leftover from silent movies, which were then being replaced by the talkies (like this one) - I wonder what was going to happen to the "unsuspecting" audience?

[hobojazz]

I think this song may be called 'Love To Take A Lesson From You' but without a comparison version I can't be sure. Anyone know another band's take on this one?

[12345678927269]

I wonder why the 1920's saw a lot of immorality?

[StarRimmedGlasses]

haha a few look like there drunk outta their mind, but still really cool :D

[dominiksf]

some of these girls are definitely drunk lol

[MusicalFeelings]

Spectacular!!

[zandyjo]

nice looking young ladies

well fed - not ridiculously thin

standards are insane nowadays

[Mr1920s]

LOL True, but other standards were insane back then, too. Sickly, pale looking skin was popular. women would sometimes bleach their skeen and even sometimes resort to bleeding themselves to achieve that look. But its much worse nowadays... Everyone getting surgery and injections, and fake tans, and bleached hair, ect.

[doctorkazoo]

@zandyjo these women are beautiful but I also like today's standards.

[johnnycchops]

score by Oscar Levant

[rkolian]

Yes, it's "Tanned Legs", and it was undoubtedly filmed at the RKO studios at Melrose and Gower, L.A.

[78timothy]

I think this is from RKO's"Tanned Legs"  featuring Arther Lake.

[swangonce]

But it is a set, isn't it?

[gmmix]

A delightful slice of the past. Roof gardens with live bands and orchestras were once such a popular venue. My hometown of Reading, PA, once had two of them....atop the Eagles' and Elk's lodge halls.

[twobarbreak]

There is also a Breakers in Long Beach California...

[jfm487]

Thank you!

[toebonian]

Wonder if the location was "The Breakers" in Palm Beach, Florida? That is the only 'Breakers' I know of on the East Coast. I haven't a clue about the left coast!

[henry814]

Excellent! And even more so since it was filmed on a roof garden, one of those unmistakably 1920's venues.

[LordWham]

Very nice..!

[kspm01]

Great, thank you!