Dean Collins - The King of Swing - 1917 - 1984 (all movie dance scenes)

A montage of all the clips (to my best of knowledge) of Dean Collins.
Dean Collins brought Lindy Hop to California and became a famous for his dancing, teaching the locals and staring in many, many movies as can be seen here. His style is elegant and smooth, while still keeping the rawness of the jitterbug. It is interesting to see how HIS dancing has morphed into West Coast Swing and people, especially in Los Angeles, still can trace back their dancing to Dean & Jewel.
Special thanks to Bill Green for his great research and efforts in sharing most of the clips in good quality on his channel: / channel
Also, thanks to Peter Loggins for providing a few of the clips on his channels.
Also, see a great montage for Jewel McGowan, Dean's partner for 11 years, on Nick Williams's channel.
0:00 Introduction
0:04 1940 Hold That Tiger
0:21 Playmates
0:27 Jazzy Joe
1:26 1941 Dance Hall
2:36 1941 Let's Make Music
3:19 1944 Buck Privates
3:45 1941 The Get-Away
4:14 1941 Hilo Hottie - Soundie
5:35 1941 Hellzapoppin'
6:07 1942 Talk Of The Town
6:39 1942 The Powers Girl
8:53 1942 Glen Grazy Casa Loma - Hep & Happy
11:34 1942 The Chool Song
14:09 1942 Ride 'em Cowboy
14:34 1942 Hi, Neighbour
16:00 1942 Johnny Doughboy
16:57 1942 Rings On Her Fingers
18:12 1943 Always A Bridesmaid
18:46 1943 Kid Dynamite
19:18 1943 Young Ideas
20:22 1943 Thumbs Up
21:30 1944 Ghost Catcher
23:02 1944 Sing A Jingle
24:38 1944 Strange Affair
25:03 1945 Sensations of 1945
25:37 1945 Let's Go Steady
26:41 1945 Horn Blows At Midnight
28:11 1945 Tabby The Cat - Soundie
28:54 1946 Junior Prom
30:27 1954 Living It Up

[@patriciahale6105]

Dean was my uncle. My father's brother.

[@sandaglad]

That was a lotta work finding all of those clips....the most complete compilation of Dean Collins numbers ever. Thank you for your efforts! Just plain fun.

[@dogperson432]

Absolutely the best compilation on TH-cam. Dean clips are so many and actually quite hard to find. Thank you for this.

[@swing-o-gram]

Glad you like it. Comments like this make it worth it :)

[@dogperson432]

@@swing-o-gram I'm very glad to hear that. You're doing a service for those of us out there who want to share this great dancing with people.

[@patricioegarces]

Thank you for the compilation!! 💜

[@AntonOlfert]

Great upload, thank you!
There is a typo in the title.

[@swing-o-gram]

Thank you :)

[@manoelteixeira4936]

Dançar o Lindy hoppers é para poucos, tem que trabalhar a mente e o corpo, aí consegue, etc. maneco - Brasil.

[@joannbates9755]

He certainly thought he was king of swing.