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- ↑ "Joe Bennett Dies. Vaudeville Dancer". New York Times . September 2, 1967. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
- ↑ Marshall Winslow Stearns and Jean Stearns (1968). Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance. p. 53.
- ↑ Historical Dictionary of Vaudeville, publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, published: 2023, url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Historical_Dictionary_of_Vaudeville/Y_XDEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Joe+Bennett+vaudeville+dancer&pg=PA60&printsec=frontcover
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