Word: dancer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...teens in his native Russia, he was a fine classical dancer. By the time he left Russia in 1924 as a member of the touring "Soviet State Dancers"* and joined Diaghilev's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in Paris, he was just as good a dancer of character roles. At 20, he became Diaghilev's ballet master...
...them: Dancer-Actress Tamara Geva, who became his first wife; Ballerina Alexandra Danilova, who became his second. Subsequent wives: Berlin-born Dancer Vera Zorina, from whom he was divorced in 1946, Oklahoma-born Ballerina Maria Tallchief, part Osage Indian, from whom he separated last month...
...hard and never able to obey the cadets' admonitions to "suck in that gut," Cagney struts, mugs and rampages with the embarrassing insistence of a pugnacious drunk whom no one quite dares to lead to the door. For its best moments, The West Point Story depends on talented Dancer Gene Nelson and the pleasant voices of Gordon MacRae and Doris Day in some tuneful Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn songs. As Cagney's girl friend, who all but joins the corps herself, Virginia Mayo fills her tights admirably...
...Dance" must have been an uneasy routine for Fred Astaire, as it certainly will be for a good many audiences. Astaire, of course, is his incomparable self, graceful, debonair, amusing. But he has been teamed with Betty Hutton who, unfortunately, is neither a dancer nor a lady. Astaire deserves a partner who is both...
This is the final act of a tawdry drama played to the music of a jazz band last week in the Rose Room dance hall in Oakland, Calif. It shows a taxi dancer who was shot as she danced, and slumped to the floor, dying. Dark-haired Violet Watson, 35, wife of an Air Force sergeant, had been dancing for two hours with a 56-year-old steady customer who had bought a fat roll of tickets. Another taxi dancer overheard them quarreling: the man begged Violet to run away with him. When she refused, he fired a pistol from...