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      • Nora Kaye, a one-time Broadway chorine who became a founding dancer of the Ballet Theatre at its inception in 1939 and eventually the first internationally famous American ballerina, died Saturday of cancer. She was 67 and died at her home in Santa Monica.
  1. Kaye-Ross died from cancer in Los Angeles at age 67, and is buried with her husband Herbert Ross in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. [1] Their gravestone is inscribed "They Loved Each Other".

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  3. Mar 1, 1987 · Nora Kaye, a one-time Broadway chorine who became a founding dancer of the Ballet Theatre at its inception in 1939 and eventually the first internationally famous American ballerina, died...

  4. Oct 4, 1987 · In February, when Kaye died of cancer, Ross carried on by completing “Dancers,” a movie dedicated to her memory, starring their friend Mikhail Baryshnikov, and opening locally Friday. “Dancers”...

  5. Mar 8, 1987 · Kaye retired from dancing in 1961 and her performances in the most enduring of the ballets created for her--Antony Tudor’s “Pillar of Fire” (1942), Agnes de Mille’s “Fall River Legend” (1948) and...

  6. Mar 1, 1987 · Nora Kaye, a leading American ballerina whose exceptional power as a dramatic dancer made her an international star, died yesterday at her home in Los Angeles after a long illness. She was 67....

  7. Mar 2, 1987 · SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Internationally acclaimed ballerina Nora Kaye, wife of film director Herbert Ross and former star of the American Ballet Theater and the New York City Ballet, has died, a...

  8. Nora Kaye (born Jan. 17, 1920, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 28, 1987, Los Angeles, Calif.) was an American dramatic ballerina, often referred to as the “Duse of the Dance.” Nora Koreff began taking dance lessons at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School at the age of eight.

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