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Cleocima | 12:33 Tue 23rd May 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Can anybody tell me the proper name for the 'marathon' dancing contests which took place in the United States during the thirties' depression period?
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In the Jane Fonda movie it was called "They shoot horses don't they"
Were they "dancathons"?
I think the film title referred to the fact that if horses went through such pain they would be shot.
Some were advertised during the period as "Derby's" and sometimes were called, at least in newspaper reports, as "walkathons"...

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Dance Marathons (also called Walkathons), an American phenomenon of the 1920s and 1930s, were human endurance contests in which couples danced almost non-stop for hundreds of hours (as long as a month or two), competing for prize money.

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Thank you Clanad and BriWrite it appears that 'walkathon' is the answere I needed.

Frankie Laine the American singer who I saw many moons ago in the fifties once held the record for this type of dancing 3501 hours 145 consecutive days.In Atlantic City N J .did not do him any harm though he still alive and kicking age 93 this year

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