Ruby is a Depression-era Broadway hoofer hoping for her big break. Dick, her beau, is an up-and-coming songwriter. Together, they hope to knock ’em dead on the Great White Way. “It’s tap-dancing, ...

In the musical “Dames at Sea” at Florida Studio Theatre, Emily Ann Brooks plays a young woman who practically dances her way off a bus from her hometown in Utah onto Broadway. Her character is named ...

Actress Ruby Keeler lived a roller-coaster life between her 1933 showgirl days (above) and an unlikely career resurgence in 1971, in Broadway's "No, No, Nanette." Bettmann Archive Grandmother and ...