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Nicholas Brothers
The Nicholas Brothers in Orchestra Wives (1942).
The parents of the Nicholas Brothers were both professional musicians who performed in pit orchestras for vaudeville shows. Their mother, Viola, was a classically trained pianist, and their father, Ulysses, was a drummer.1