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    Haney died in Saddle River, New Jersey in 1964, at age 39, six weeks after the opening of Funny Girl, which she choreographed (and ten years to the month after she injured her ankle and was replaced by Shirley MacLaine in The Pajama Game).

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  3. Carol Haney, the energetic dancer who emerged from obscurity to stardom in “The Pajama Game” in 1954, died Sunday night in New York Hospital. She was 39 years old.

  4. When dancer, actress and choreographer Carol Haney (1924-1964) was a young child, a Portuguese fortune teller in New Bedford predicted her stardom. In a critically-acclaimed but short-lived career, Carol won a Tony Award and earned three Tony nominations for excellence on Broadway.

  5. After her death, her husband took the children to Texas, where they had relatives, and was soon, thereafter, killed in an auto accident. - IMDb Mini Biography By: George G. Vitt, Jr. <gvitt@worldnet.att.net>.

    • December 24, 1924
    • May 10, 1964
  6. Carol Haney (December 24, 1924 – May 10, 1964) was an American dancer and actress. After assisting Gene Kelly in choreographing films, Haney won a Tony Award for her role in The Pajama Game. She then shifted to choreography, being nominated for three more Tonys for her choreography work on Broadway.

  7. Feb 22, 2022 · If famed choreographer Bob Fosse had an “it” girl before Gwen Verdon, it was actress Carol Haney. After leaving an uncredited dance assistant job with Gene Kelly, Haney landed at MGM as a specialty dancer and partner to Fosse, who was playing Hortensio in the film Kiss Me Kate.

  8. Haney died of respiratory failure a scant six weeks after Funny Girl opened, and never had the chance to exult in the show’s sensational success (1,348 performances) or enjoy the Tony® nomination she received posthumously. She was only 39. – LEC. Photo courtesy of The Everett Collection

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