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Originally Posted by BDiH
Veloz and Yolanda also had a dance studio next to (or a part of) the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Their daughter, Yolanda Veloz, was a student at Hollywood High School.
There are two streets named after the dancers in the San Fernando Valley, Veloz Avenue and Yolanda Avenue. They intersect just south of Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana.
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As a baseball fan, I recall that Veloz and Yolanda danced in a scene in the Lou Gehrig biopic "Pride of the Yankees" starring Gary Cooper as Lou and Babe Ruth as himself. Veloz & Yolanda were the headliners in a nightclub when Lou was dating his wife to be Eleanor. Lou was a Mama's boy and quite shy. According to one Ruth bio I read, Ruth and Eleanor may have had a fling before the marriage, or at least Lou suspected that, and this may have led to bad feelings all around. The Babe liked the ladies, as well as vast quantities of food & drink. Burned the candle at both ends, yet he outlived good boy Lou. But Lou got the better biopic by far. "Pride of the Yankees" is memorable. The Ruth biopic with William Bendix is horrid. But at least the Babe memorably appears in Lou's biopic, and steals the show. The Babe was unforgettable.