The Pride of the Yankees
As the leading ballroom dance team in the United States, Veloz and Yolanda made US$8,500 (over $150,000 in 2018) in one week in Chicago in 1939. They appeared on the cover of "Life" magazine on 30 October 1939, which called them, "The greatest dance couple in America." They were the first to give a recital of ballroom dance at Carnegie Hall They appeared at the Chicago Palmer House and then at the Cocoanut Grove in Hollywood. Veloz and Yolanda moved to Southern California in the 1940s. The Cocoanut Grove performances led to movie contracts, including "Honeymoon Lodge", "Cavalcade of Dance", "The Pride of the Yankees", and "The Thrill of Brazil". 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.