Compliments followed them wherever they went. Dancer extraordinaire
Fred Astaire once called
The Nicholas Brothers' "Jumpin' Jive" dance sequence in the film
Stormy Weather (1943) the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen. Famed choreographer
George Balanchine called their acrobatic movement ballet, despite their lack of formal training. Tapper
Gregory Hines once said that if a film were ever made about the Nicholas Brothers, the dance numbers would have to be computer-generated because nobody could duplicate them. Ballet star
Mikhail Baryshnikov once called them the most amazing dancers he had ever seen.