The 1953 Harvest Moon Ball

*** This research and video creating is part of the COVID Quarantine when many full time swing dance instructors like myself have lost almost all of their scheduled gigs for 2020, 2021, and 2023. Please consider donating: Venmo: @bobbyswungover *** This is a collection of newsreels of the 1953 Harvest Moon Ball broken down into individual dancing heats. Savoy finalists: Ruth “Sugar“ & George Sullivan (3rd), Josephine & Theodore Davis, Viki Diaz & Lee Moates, Ruth Hampton & Jerry Lawrence (2nd), Montoya Borden & Thomas King “King & King“, Beatrice “Mildred“ Pierce & John H. Smith (“Smitty & Bea“) (1st). HUGE THANKS to SUGAR SULLIVAN, SONNY ALLEN, and GLORIA THOMPSON for helping me review this footage. For more information on this year’s HMB, and a breakdown of the dancing, see the article on the 1953 Harvest Moon Ball: