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Jeni LeGon (born Jennie Ligon; August 14, 1916 – December 7, 2012), also credited as Jeni Le Gon, was an American dancer, dance instructor, and actress. She was one of the first African-American women to establish a solo career in tap dance .
Jeni LeGon, auch bekannt als Jeni Le Gon, war eine amerikanische Tänzerin, Tanzlehrerin und Schauspielerin. Sie war eine der ersten afroamerikanischen Frauen, die eine Solokarriere im Stepptanz machte.
28. Juli 2004 · Dancer, actress, and dance instructor Jeni LeGon was born Jennie Ligon on August 14, 1916, in Chicago, Illinois. Later, in London, she learned that she was descended from General Henry Beauchamp Lygon, the 4th Earl of Beauchamp, through her father, Hector Ligon, a "Geechie" from the Georgia Sea Islands.
11. Dez. 2012 · Jeni LeGon dies at 96; dancer was one of the first black women to become a tap soloist. By Adam Bernstein. December 11, 2012 at 6:26 p.m. EST. She was an exuberant Chicago teenager who tapped and...
17. Dez. 2012 · Jeni LeGon, a singer and tap dancer who hoofed her way from the South Side of Chicago to Hollywood, where she shared the screen with Bill Bojangles Robinson and Cab Calloway, and to...
Jeni Le Gon. Actress: Arabian Nights. Born in 1916 in Chicago, Jeni Le Gon trained at Mary Bruce's School of Dancing and performed as a chorus girl, later in vaudeville, from age 16. In Hollywood she appeared in her debut film, Hooray for Love (1935), as dancing partner of the great Bill Robinson.
Le Gon (born in Georgia Aug. 24,1916; died December 7, 2012) was the first African-American women to sign with a major studio, but there was more to it that that. From the loving obit by Stephen Bourne in the Independent:
