[Harold Nicholas], who was once married to actress Dorothy Dandridge and made the occasional film appearance in recent years, was born in 1921 in Winston-Salem, N.C., the child of vaudeville musicians. By 1932, the same year as the brothers' first film, a short shot in Brooklyn called "Pie, Pie Blackbird" with Eubie Blake, Harold and [Fayard] were performing at the Cotton Club, sharing the bill with Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. Samuel Goldwyn saw them at the Harlem nightspot and invited them to do their first studio film, "Kid Millions" (1934). (Harold, alone, had appeared in a New York production of "The Emperor Jones" with Paul Robeson the previous year.)