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  1. Nov 26, 2012 · Eleanor Powell, the magnificently talented movie-musical performer of the mid-twentieth century, was too good for Hollywood. I don’t mean too virtuous; I mean too virtuosic—too masterful at her...

  2. Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American dancer and actress. Best remembered for her tap dance numbers in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s, she was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 's top dancing stars during the Golden Age of Hollywood .

  3. Nov 6, 2023 · Eleanor Powell, a movie star and dancer from Hollywood's golden era, passed away in 1982 at age 69. The ex-wife of actor Glenn Ford is the subject of a new book. Fox News Media

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  4. Apr 25, 2024 · Eleanor Powell was an American film performer best known for her powerful and aggressive style of tap dancing. In 1965, the Dance Masters of America bestowed upon her the title of World’s Greatest Tap Dancer. Powell studied ballet at age six and began dancing at nightclubs in Atlantic City, New.

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  6. Eleanor Powell. Actress: Born to Dance. Eleanor Powell was born in 1912 in Springfield, Massachussetts, and got her professional start in Atlantic City clubs, from where she moved into in revue in New York at the Ritz Grill and Casino de Paris at the age of sixteen.

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    • February 11, 1982
  7. Actress: Born to Dance. Eleanor Powell was born in 1912 in Springfield, Massachussetts, and got her professional start in Atlantic City clubs, from where she moved into in revue in New York at the Ritz Grill and Casino de Paris at the age of sixteen.

  8. Jan 11, 2016 · January 11, 2016 by Elizabeth Semko. “The dance routines I created are like children to me. I don’t want to forget them.” – Eleanor Powell. On November 21, 1912, a little girl named Eleanor was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Little did the world know that day that dance royalty had been born.

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