Research Catalog
Charles "Cookie" Cook collection
- Title
- Charles "Cookie" Cook collection, 1920s-1995 (bulk 1970s-1990).
- Author
- Cook, Charles, 1917-1991.
Available Online
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 99 box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- .2 lin. ft. (1 print box)
- Summary
- The Charles "Cookie" Cook Collection focuses primarily on Cook's later years. There are several letters, telegrams and postcards expressing appreciation for his performances. The collection includes programs for performances in which Cook appeared, especially with the tap dance group "The Copasetics" in New York City, and other venues in the United States and in Rome (1980-1995), as well as flyers advertising a variety of performances in which Cook was featured (1961-1979). There are also news clippings discussing Cook.
- Subjects
- Note
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Circuit Productions/Susan Goldbetter
- Biography (note)
- Charles "Cookie" Cook, a vaudeville tap and acrobatic dancer and teacher for more than fifty years, began performing as a child with Garbage and the Two Cans and Sarah Venable and Her Picks. In 1930, he and Ernest (Brownie) Brown formed the headline dance and comedy team Cook and Brown. Their act, seen in such venues as New York's Cotton Club, combined tumbling, dance and comedic patter. Cook was one of the members of The Copasetics, the fraternity of black entertainers that was influential in the revival of tap dancing in the late 1970s-1980s. He performed in the film "Cotton Club" at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and at a 1990 tap festival in New York. He died at age 77 in 1991.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 99
- OCLC
- 428562922
- Author
- Cook, Charles, 1917-1991.
- Title
- Charles "Cookie" Cook collection, 1920s-1995 (bulk 1970s-1990).
- Biography
- Charles "Cookie" Cook, a vaudeville tap and acrobatic dancer and teacher for more than fifty years, began performing as a child with Garbage and the Two Cans and Sarah Venable and Her Picks. In 1930, he and Ernest (Brownie) Brown formed the headline dance and comedy team Cook and Brown. Their act, seen in such venues as New York's Cotton Club, combined tumbling, dance and comedic patter. Cook was one of the members of The Copasetics, the fraternity of black entertainers that was influential in the revival of tap dancing in the late 1970s-1980s. He performed in the film "Cotton Club" at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and at a 1990 tap festival in New York. He died at age 77 in 1991.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 99