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Jun 18, 2008 · Cyd Charisse, who died on Tuesday aged 87, was one of the leading dancers at MGM in the heyday of the Hollywood musical. She regularly partnered Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire on screen and was ...
Born Tula Ellice Finklea, Cyd Charisse was born in Amarillo, Texas, in 1922. She suffered from polio as a young girl and took up dancing as part of her recovery.
Fred Astaire called her “beautiful dynamite”, and, when she was dancing, Cyd Charisse was a dynamic and alluring talent. One of the screen’s finest dancers, she became a legendary performer ...
Jun 18, 2008 · Cyd Charisse, the Texan dancer and actor who made her name in the Technicolor glory days of Hollywood musicals, starring with Gene Kelly in the famous Broadway Melody Ballet scene in Singin' in ...
Cyd Charisse was the last great musical star to come out of MGM, and she barely made it to stardom before the musical genre began its decline. One of the greatest dancers ever to come out of Hollywood, Charisse worked in movies for almost a decade before being allowed to take center stage in a major musical feature; but when she did, she fairly ...
Jun 18, 2008 · Remembering Cyd Charisse. She was born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, in 1921 or 1922, but became known as Cyd Charisse. Her original nickname was Sid, supposedly from a brother who could ...
"Dancing in the Dark" by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse from the 1953 film "The Bandwagon" is indisputably one of the top five or 10 performances of all time ...
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