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Jun 19, 2008 · Cyd Charisse, the long-legged beauty who in the 1950s gave Fred Astaire some midcareer oomph and Gene Kelly his match in pure animal vitality, wasn't a Hollywood immortal. She never transcended ...
Jun 17, 2008 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 27623986. Source citation. Dancer, Actress. Regarded by many as one of the top dancers in films from the 1940s and 1950s, she is best known for her performances in the MGM musicals The Unfinished Dance (1947), Singin' in the Rain (1952), and The Band Wagon (1953). She was born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas ...
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 ...
Jun 18, 2008 · Actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, the impossibly long-legged movie musical star who gained fame for her on-screen pairings with Hollywood dance greats Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died on Tuesday ...
Cyd Charisse made her film debut in an uncredited bit as a flamenco dancer in the Continental Pictures production Escort Girl (1941) before signing with MGM in 1943, where she began working as a chorus dancer. For her professional name in movies, MGM producer Arthur Freed changed the spelling of her nickname to "Cyd" and used the last name of ...
Jul 27, 2010 · Updated: August 5, 2020. Finklea, Tula Ellice [Cyd Charisse] (1922–2008). Tula Ellice Finklea (better known as Cyd Charisse), dancer and actress, was born on March 8, 1922, in Amarillo, Texas, to Lela (Norwood) and Ernest Enos Finklea, Sr., owner of a jewelry store. She grew up at the family’s 1616 Tyler Street home, receiving her later ...
