Condos Brothers Bibliography

[LC] We Did Believe in Spring (the Tap Dancer and Sweet Lorraine)
Lorraine McClung Condos
DORRANCE Publishing Company Incorporated, Mar 1, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 220 pages, Kindle edition
Memoirs of widow of Steve Condos, mentions 

• brothers Nick and Frank, sisters Eve, Ann, Joanie, Marie. The only mention of "Harry" is the character that Steve plays in a New Orleans production of Guys and Dolls.
• (locs 234, 587, 1346) brothers Nick and Steve were in Fox musicals like Moon Over Miami, Pin Up Girl and more.
• (loc 1014) Steve's first film was with Ben Bernie, Sonja Henie, Caesar Romero. [This paragraph is flawed, since it mentions SH in the 1939 Winter Olympics, makes it sound as though Ben Bernie was in the SH film. He was in Condos Brothers' film Wake Up and Live (1937). But the SH film was next: Happy Landing (1938), and did costar CR.]

LMC states she was at least 22 years younger than SC, didn't meet him until the 1960's.

[BS] What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

Brian Seibert

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Nov 17, 2015 - Performing Arts - 624 pages
Relevant references:

• p221: 
• Frank forms duo King and King with Mateo Olvera
• when they split, Mateo adds his 2 brothers to form King, King and King
• in '29 Frank formed duo with brother Nick, 10 years his junior
• Earl Carroll's Vanities of '30
• p222: 
• wowed London, baffled Paris
• Frank quit the act around '36
• Nick and Steve made the movies
• p273:
• correctly attributes a dance number in To Beat the Band ('35) to Nick; added him to the film (I have a copy from Warner Archive)
• Lists 7 of the 8 films that Condos did together, all with the implication that they are Nick and Steve. (Omitted: Hey Rookie ('44))

Condos, Frank... 220-2, 248
Condos, Harry... 0

Condos, Nick... 221-3, 272-4, 453

Condos, Steve... 222-3, 273-4, 378, 407, 418-9, 432, 434, 439, 453, 458-9, 464, 501, 505, 523, 526&7,567

Condos Brothers... 220-3, 226, 272-4, 278&9, 396

1. Midshipmaid Gob (1932)... 0
2. Dancing Feet (1936)... 0
3. Wake Up and Live (1937)... 273
4. Happy Landing (1938)... 273
5. The Broadway Buckaroo (1939)... 0
6. In the Navy (1941)... 0
7. Moon Over Miami (1941)... 279
8. Hands Across the Border (1944)... 0
9. Hey, Rookie (1944)... 280
10. Pin Up Girl (1944)... 273
11. Song of the Open Road (1944)... 273
12. The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)... 273
13. Columbia Thrills of Music: Buddy Rich and His Orchestra (1949)... 274
14. Meet Me After the Show (1951)... 0
15. She's Back on Broadway (1953)... 0
16. Tap (1989)... 452-7, 474, 509, 537


[CH] Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History
Constance Valis Hill
Oxford University Press, Nov 12, 2014 - Performing Arts - 441 pages
Relevant references:

• p139: Moon Over Miami had dancers the Condos Brother, Nick and Steve.
• p140: captioned photo of Nick, Betty Grable and Steve dancing You Started Something
• p143: 
• Frank born Greece 1906, Nick in So. Philadelphia 1915, Steve in Pittsburgh 1918
• Frank quits the act with Nick in 1933, replaced by Steve. Nick & Steve were together in the '30's and '40's. First appeared onscreen together in Wake Up and Live ('37).
• p144: describes Steve's and Nick's special moves in the Yankee Doodle Hayride number of Pin Up Girl ('44).
• p273: Steve appeared in Hollywood films in the '40's.

Condos, Frank... 79, 106, 143

Condos, Harry... 0

Condos, Nick... 139-40, 143-4

Condos, Steve... xi, 81, 139-40, 143-4, 224, 246, 254, 256, 270, 273, 292-3, 296, 392, 399, 400, 405

Condos Brothers... 81, 139-40, 143-4

1. Midshipmaid Gob (1932)... 0

2. Dancing Feet (1936)... 0

3. Wake Up and Live (1937)... 143

4. Happy Landing (1938)... 0

5. The Broadway Buckaroo (1939)... 0

6. In the Navy (1941)... 0

7. Moon Over Miami (1941)... 139-40, 143-44

8. Hands Across the Border (1944)... 0

9. Hey, Rookie (1944)... 0

10. Pin Up Girl (1944)... 140-1, 143-4

11. Song of the Open Road (1944)... 0

12. The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)... 0

13. Columbia Thrills of Music: Buddy Rich and His Orchestra (1949)... ?

14. Meet Me After the Show (1951)... 0

15. She's Back on Broadway (1953)... 0

16. Tap (1989)... 245-6, 248, 277, 293

[RF] Tap!: The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories, 1900-1955

Rusty E. Frank

William Morrow, 1990 - Dancers - 331 pages

Provides the photos, all captioned as Nick and Steve, from these films:

• Wake Up and Live (1937), p103
• In the Navy (1941), p105
• Pin Up Girl (1944), p105
• The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946), p108

Says (p104) that Nick and Steve were making films as the Condos Brothers. She doesn't mention any Condos in The Midshipmaid ('32). On p104, the author erroneously mentions She's Back on Broadway ('53) as a film with the brothers; instead Steve is paired with Jerry Brandow, which she listed correctly on p318.

Interview with Steve begins p104.

Condos, Frank... 104, 286

Condos, Harry... 0

Condos, Nick... 103-5, 108, 216, 282, 286

Condos, Steve... 8, 10, 49, 103-10, 130, 171, 286, 316-7

Condos Brothers... 49, 102-110, 128, 130, 213-4, 243, 246, 259-60, 286, 305-8, 313, 315

1. Midshipmaid Gob (1932)... 299 (for Jessie Matthews)

2. Dancing Feet (1936)... 303

3. Wake Up and Live (1937)... 103-4, 305

4. Happy Landing (1938)... 104, 109, 306

5. The Broadway Buckaroo (1939)... 307

6. In the Navy (1941)... 104-5, 308

7. Moon Over Miami (1941)... 76, 308

8. Hands Across the Border (1944)... 0

9. Hey, Rookie (1944)... 313

10. Pin Up Girl (1944)... 80, 104-5, 313

11. Song of the Open Road (1944)... 313

12. The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)... 104, 108, 315

13. Columbia Thrills of Music: Buddy Rich and His Orchestra (1949)... ? 107, 316

14. Meet Me After the Show (1951)... 317

15. She's Back on Broadway (1953)... 104, 318

16. Tap (1989)... 0