Cuban Rhythm

In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances.

Cast

Pete Smith

as Narrator (voice)

Madeline Pollard

as Herself - Dancer

Mickey Alvarez

as Himself - Dancer

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