Solid Potato Salad - The Ross Sisters (1944)

Never underestimate a woman who can get both legs behind her head and wrap her feet around her face. (HINT: Watch past the first 45 seconds or so. Whoah!)

Solid Potato Salad? No, it's not what you get when you leave the deli container out of the fridge too long. It's a 1940s term for...something (I have no idea what. ) In this classic footage from the movie "Broadway Rhythm" (1944), the Ross sisters, Aggie, Maggie and Elmira, sing and move in ways that don't look humanly possible. Yoga anyone? Movie buffs will recognize the tune as one of the background instrumentals from "The Godfather."

It starts out looking like another kitschy 40's tune, but give it a minute. Things get wild! Now if I can just figure out what apples have to do with potato salad...

(Extra trivia: While the Ross Sisters are billed in their act as Aggie, Maggie and Elmira Ross, their real-life names were actually Vicki, Dixie and Betsy Ross.)

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[SixthSenseSynesthete]

This is a moment when I ask myself...how did I get here?

[Hailey Swinyer]

Do they have any bones?

[firstandlast711]

This is fabulous stuff..double wow!

[moomin peko]

idiots this have EVERYTHING to do with potato salad

[Ronald Yan]

They are sick

[MorphineAdmins]

cut footage from the exorcist 

[MrMaksjargal]

I heard wrong but they sing about Stalin?

[sweeeeetey]

some people here must be stupid b/c you act like a bunch of hillbillies who never heart of people with unusual flexibility or never saw acrobats that can bend like this called Contortionists. Even gymnastics have a certain flexibility come on..

[Ariel Medellin]

demons!!! BURN THEM !!!!!

[B0ULLIE]

They'd make excellent ninjas.

That part at 3:30 could be their special Voltron type move.

[uncleelroy2]

It must be nice, being able to stick your head up your own coochie!!! ROTFLMAO!!!