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Been Rich All My Life, a 2005 documentary by Heather Lyn MacDonaldÂ
The youngest is 84, the oldest is 95, and none is ready to give up dancing yet. The Silver Belles are a group of classy, sassy hoofers who met in the 1930s as chorus dancers at the famed Apollo and Cotton Clubs. There, they learned their trade and performed with legendary bandleaders and performers including Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald. They also formed lifelong friendships. When the dancers met up again in 1985, they discovered that they’d lost none of their moves – and their performances have been packing in crowds at concert halls in New York. Director Heather Lyn MacDonald has created a loving, stereotype-busting portrait of age-defying women who have never wavered in their love of dance or of each other