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Ernest “Brownie”
Brown
2004 Hoofer Award Recipient
Ernest “Brownie” Brown is
80-something and began to dance professionally as a
child. With longtime partner, Charles Cookie Cook, he
was half of the celebrated vaudeville duo Cook and Brown.
During the 1930’s and 1940’s, Mr. Brown
headlined at New York’s Roxie, Radio City Music
Hall, the Cotton Club, at London’s Palladium and
the Latin Casino in Paris. Broadway veteran of “Kiss
me Kate,” Brownie was a member of “The Original
Copasetics.” Currently, Mr. Brown dances with
his partner and protégé Reginald “The
Hoofer” McLaughlin; they appear on a tap documentary
called “JUBA – Masters of Tap.”
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