Jimmy Mordecai was a dancer, who died in 1966.
Biography
Jimmy Mordecai (July 11, 1905 – May 7, 1966) also known as James Mordecai was an American, Harlem-based jazz tap dancer in the 1920s and 1930s. He featured in the 1929 short film St. Louis Blues, and starred in the 1930 Vitaphone Varieties musical short film, Yarmekraw, based on James P. Johnson's song of the same name.
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