Veloz and Yolanda

A full-length ballet written by their son Guy Veloz, An American Tango, is based on their life story.

[2] Veloz and Yolanda featured in the 1927 Broadway show Artists and Models, starring Ted Lewis and Jack Pearl.

[6] The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson described Pleasure Bound as a "rough-and-ready" revue, but called the act of Frank Veloz and Yolanda Casazza a has-to-be-seen "centrifugal dance spinning feminine heels in the air".

[9] As the leading ballroom dance team in the United States, Veloz and Yolanda made US$8,500 (over US$150,000 in 2018) in one week in Chicago in 1939.

"[5] They were the first to give a recital of ballroom dance at Carnegie Hall[3] They appeared at the Chicago Palmer House and then at the Cocoanut Grove in Hollywood.

The Cocoanut Grove performances led to movie contracts, including Honeymoon Lodge, Cavalcade of Dance, The Pride of the Yankees, and The Thrill of Brazil.

[5] Samuel Goldwyn had insisted on having a nightclub sequence with Veloz and Yolanda in The Pride of the Yankees to give some interest for women in what was otherwise a baseball movie.

[4] They had four children in all, called the "million dollar babies" due to the amount of income the couple lost while Yolanda was pregnant and then nursing a newborn.

The studios taught the Rhumba, Waltz, Fox Trot, Smooth Swing, Tango, Samba and Mambo.

[5] A full-length ballet written by their son Guy Veloz, An American Tango, is based on their life story.

[3] Veloz and Yolanda were interested in the way animals moved about and were said to have studied horses to learn change of stride and tempo.

They wrote, "There was one lift that was truly spectacular – Frank would pick up Yolanda, spin her with her head down, then throw her out where she landed on one knee in a low lunge, back leg extended.

"[5] For Your Pleasure, a "dance vaudeville" featuring Veloz and Yolanda, opened at New York's Mansfield Theater on 5 February 1943 and ran for eleven performances.

[24] However The Billboard said of the show:[23] Smoothness is their trademark, and inventiveness of routines, excellent musical arrangements and impeccable grooming are the other attributes that make them outstanding.

Avoiding aerial lifts, they depend for effectiveness on an effortless grace, the suggestion of the perfectly mated pair, and an apparent thoro [sic] enjoyment of their work.