Choreography is by Catherine Littlefield unless otherwise noted; premier dates follow titles.
Ballets
Aubade (chor. Alexis Dolinoff), March 1936
Barn Dance, April 1937
Bolero, July 1936
Cafe Society, November 1938
Classical Suite, November 1937
Daphnis and Chloe, March 1936
Die Puppenfee, December 1927
Fantasia (chor. Jack Potteiger), November 1938
Fete Champetre (chor. Edward Caton, reworked by Littlefield), March 1936
Home Life of the Gods (chor. Lasar Galpern), December 1936
Ladies’ Better Dresses, November 1938
Let the Righteous Be Glad, December 1937
The Minstrel, October 1935
Parable in Blue, December 1937
Poeme, December 1936
The Prodigal Son (chor. Lasar Galpern), December 1936
The Rising Sun: A Ballet History of Old Philadelphia, December 1937
Romantic Variations (chor. Alexis Dolinoff), November 1936
The Sleeping Beauty (later abridged to Aurora’s Wedding), February 1937
The Snow Queen, December 1935
Soiree Galante (later called Moment Romantique), October 1935
Terminal, June 1937
Viennese Waltz, May 1936
Musicals
Crazy with the Heat, 1941
The Firebrand of Florence, March 1945
Follow the Girls, April 1944
Hold onto Your Hats, June 1940
A Kiss for Cinderella, March 1942
Sweethearts, January 1947
Ice Shows
Hollywood Ice Revue, annually 1941-51
Howdy, Mr. Ice, June 1948
Howdy, Mr. Ice of 1950, May 1949
Icetime, June 1946
It Happens on Ice, October 1940
Stars on Ice, July 1942
Miscellaneous
America and Italia, pageants for Philadelphia’s Sesquicentennial Exhibition, June 1926
American Jubilee, pageant for New York World’s Fair, May 1940
The Countess of Monte Cristo, film starring Sonja Henie, 1948
Four-Star Revue, variety television program on NBC with host Jimmy Durante, 1951
H.P. (Horsepower), ballet-symphony, March 1932
Funzapoppin’, Olsen and Johnson revue, July 1949
La Valse, for Roxy Theatre, November 1932
Operas, operettas, divertissements, musical plays and interpretations, revues and other arrangements, mainly in the 1920s and ’30s and often co-choreographed with Caroline Littlefield.
Wonderful creative life. Only wish is to see film segments. trying to teach america’s ballet history
There is some film footage of the Littlefields and their company dancing housed at the Newberry Library in Chicago and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, NYC. It was taken by Ann Barzel in the late 1930s/early 1940s.
Hi, my mom was a student of Dorthy’s. She adored her and tells me stories all the time about Dorothie, Catherine and their mom Caroline. We have a few photos of Dorothie signed to my mom. My mom is still alive, do you know if there are any photos of the Junior Ballet that Dorothie ran? My mom knows all the dancers from that time. She also had scholarships from Vilzak, and Schwezoff, later was in Alicia Alonzo’s Company. Her stage name was Anna Ariel