Trivia

Sometimes credited as Alice Baker, as the "r" was often left out of her last name by mistake.

(As of April 2015) Alice Barker is alive at 102 and living in a nursing home.

Alice died in her sleep after having a good time the day before.

In April of 2013, a video was uploaded to Youtube which featured 102 year old Alice, who was living in a nursing home, seeing her filmed dancing scenes for the first time. The video went viral, and as of June, 2020, it has been viewed more than twenty-eight-million times.

She also danced in numerous movies, commercials and TV shows with legends including Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Gene Kelly, and a young Frank Sinatra.

Received a letter from the White House on her 103rd birthday in 2015.

For her entire career she worked as a chorus line dancer in New York City, on Broadway and during the Harlem Renaissance of the the 1930s and 40s. She danced at clubs such as The Apollo, Cotton Club, and Zanzibar Club, where she was part of a legendary group known as the Zanzibeauts.

She was born in Chicago, and left for New York City to become a dancer in her mid 20's-which was quite a bold move for a woman in her time.