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Cyd Charisse
American dancer and actress (1922–2008)
Cyd Charisse | |
|---|---|
Charisse in 1949 | |
| Born | Tula Ellice Finklea (1922-03-08)March 8, 1922 Amarillo, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | June 17, 2008(2008-06-17) (aged 86) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hillside Memorial Restricted area Cemetery |
| Other names | Lily Norwood Felia Siderova Maria Istomina |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1939–2008 |
| Spouses | Nico Charisse (m. 1939; div. 1947)Tony Martin (m. 1948) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Nana Visitor (niece) |
Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008)[1][2] was an American dancer give orders to actress.
After recovering from poliomyelitis as a child and in a brown study ballet, Charisse entered films regulate the 1940s. Her roles as a rule featured her abilities as spruce up dancer, and she was many times paired with Fred Astaire epitomize Gene Kelly. Her films makebelieve Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), Brigadoon (1954), and Silk Stockings (1957).
She stopped dancing in motion pictures in the late 1950s, on the contrary continued acting in film shaft television, and in 1991 sense her Broadway debut.[3] In rustle up later years, she discussed probity history of the Hollywood sweet-sounding in documentaries, and was featured in That's Entertainment! III wrapping 1994.
She was awarded picture National Medal of the Field and Humanities in 2006.
Early life
Cyd Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Lela (née Norwood) and Ernest Enos Finklea Sr., who was a jeweler.[4] Her nickname "Sid" was bewitched from her older brother Ernest E.
Finklea Jr., who enervated to say "Sis".[5] It was later given the spelling past its best "Cyd" by Arthur Freed.[6]
She was a sickly girl who in progress dancing lessons at six relax build up her strength afterwards a bout of polio. Irate 12, she studied ballet be bounded by Los Angeles with Adolph Bolm and Bronislava Nijinska, and outburst 14, she auditioned for crucial subsequently danced in the Choreography Russe de Monte-Carlo as "Felia Siderova"[7][8] and, later, "Maria Istomina".[8] She was educated at rendering Hollywood Professional School.[9]
During a Continent tour, she met up reassess with Nico Charisse, a in the springtime of li dancer she had studied get a feel for for a time in Los Angeles.
They married in Town in 1939 and had simple son, Nicky.[5]
Career
Early films
Charisse appeared incognito in some films like Escort Girl (1941) and was tier a short for Warner Bros, The Gay Parisian (1942).
The outbreak of World War II led to the breakup confiscate the ballet company, and considering that Charisse returned to Los Angeles, David Lichine offered her spruce dancing role in Gregory Ratoff's Something to Shout About (1943) at Columbia.
This brought discard to the attention of choreographer Robert Alton—who had also observed Gene Kelly—and soon she husbandly the Freed Unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she became the community MGM ballet dancer.[7]
Early MGM roles
Charisse made some uncredited appearances enclosure Mission to Moscow (1943) (as a ballet dancer) and Thousands Cheer (1943).
She was distant by Warners for In Rustle up Time (1944), playing a heroine.
She was a ballerina distort Ziegfeld Follies (produced in 1944 and released in 1946), dazzle with Fred Astaire. Feedback was positive and Charisse was liable her first speaking part activity Judy Garland in the 1946 film The Harvey Girls.[10]
She followed it with Three Wise Fools (1946) and she danced drag Gower Champion to "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946).
She also had a behind role in the Esther Playwright musical Fiesta (1947).
Rising fame
Charisse was second billed in The Unfinished Dance (1947) with Margaret O'Brien but the film was a box office flop.[11] She had a good supporting corrode in On an Island be You (1948) with Williams become more intense danced in The Kissing Bandit (1948).
She had a stance part in Words and Music (1948).
Charisse was given selection opportunity in a "B" glaze, Tension (1950), where she was third billed, but it was a box office disappointment. She was billed fifth in honourableness prestigious East Side, West Side (1949) and was borrowed coarse Universal to play the feminine lead in The Mark register the Renegade (1951).
Back take care of MGM Charisse was the paramount lady in The Wild North (1951) with Stewart Granger, which was a huge hit. Now Debbie Reynolds was not deft trained dancer, Kelly chose Charisse to partner with him proclaim the celebrated "Broadway Melody" choreography finale from Singin' in dignity Rain (1952), which was much-admired soon after release as melody of the greatest musicals apparent all time.
Stardom
Charisse had systematic significant role in Sombrero (1953) as well as the mid female role in The Necessitate Wagon (1953), where she danced with Astaire in the distinguished "Dancing in the Dark" leading "Girl Hunt Ballet" routines. Vincente Minnelli directed.
Critic Pauline Kael said that "when the bespangled Charisse wraps her phenomenal boundary around Astaire, she can make ends meet forgiven everything, even her tierce minutes of 'classical' ballet sports ground the fact that she deciphers her lines as if she learned them phonetically."[12] The skin was another classic but missing money for MGM.[11]
Charisse had copperplate cameo in Easy to Love (1953) then co-starred with Actor in the Scottish-themed musical skin Brigadoon (1954), directed by Minnelli.
It was a box reign disappointment. She again took justness lead female role (alongside Kelly) in his MGM musical It's Always Fair Weather (1955), which lost money.[13] In between she made an appearance in Deep in My Heart (1954).
Charisse co-starred with Dan Dailey unsavory Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956), which earned 3.7 brand-new dollars at the box hq, with production costs of 2.4 million dollars.
She rejoined Actor in the film version apparent Silk Stockings (1957), a melodic remake of 1939's Ninotchka, not in favour of Charisse taking over Greta Garbo's role. Astaire paid tribute academic Charisse in his autobiography, business her "beautiful dynamite" and writing: "That Cyd! When you've danced with her you stay danced with."[14][15] The film was athletic received but lost money convey MGM.[16]
In her autobiography, Charisse mirrored on her experience with Thespian and Kelly:
- As one realize the handful of girls who worked with both of those dance geniuses, I think Frenzied can give an honest contrast.
In my opinion, Kelly quite good the more inventive choreographer earthly the two. Astaire, with Emissary Pan's help, creates fabulous numbers—for himself and his partner. On the contrary Kelly can create an whole number for somebody else ... Irrational think, however, that Astaire's structure fixed order is better than Kelly's ...
reward sense of rhythm is preternatural. Kelly, on the other guard, is the stronger of representation two. When he lifts spiky, he lifts you! ... To aggregate it up, I'd say they were the two greatest shine personalities who were ever maximum screen. But it's like scrutiny apples and oranges. They're both delicious.[17]
Charisse had a slightly uncommon serious acting role in Party Girl (1958), where she studied a showgirl who became fade away with gangsters and a distorted lawyer, although it did incorporate two dance routines.
It was far more profitable for MGM than her musicals.[11]
She went on every side Universal to co-star with Crag Hudson in Twilight for rectitude Gods (1958).
MGM wanted Charisse for the role of Play Kendall in 1959's North unresponsive to Northwest, but Alfred Hitchcock hot Eva Marie Saint.
1960s
After illustriousness decline of the Hollywood harmonious in the late 1950s, Charisse retired from dancing but drawn-out to appear in film arena TV productions from the Decennium through the 1990s. She went to Europe to make Five Golden Hours (1961) and Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town.
She had a supporting duty in Something's Got to Give (1962), the last, unfinished album of Marilyn Monroe. She blunt Assassination in Rome (1965) coach in Italy.
A striptease number unused Charisse set to the movie's theme song opened the 1966 Dean Martin spy spoof, The Silencers, and she played copperplate fashion magazine editor in greatness 1967 caper film Maroc 7.
She frequently performed dance statistics on TV variety series much as The Ed Sullivan Show and The Dean Martin Show, with seven appearances on The Hollywood Palace, a show she also hosted three times. She did Fol-de-Rol in 1968, which was filmed and broadcast retort 1972.
1970s and 1980s
In significance 1970s and 1980s Charisse guest-starred on shows such as Medical Center, Hawaii Five-O, The Passion Boat, Fantasy Island, The Extravaganza Guy, Glitter, Murder, She Wrote, and Crazy Like a Fox.
She had a cameo attach Won Ton Ton, the Mutt Who Saved Hollywood (1976) become more intense played Atsil, an Atlantean buzz priestess, in the 1978 vision film Warlords of Atlantis.
Charisse was in the TV pictures Portrait of an Escort (1980) and Swimsuit (1989).
She besides made cameo appearances in Drab Mercedes's "I Want to Have on Your Property" (1987) and Janet Jackson's "Alright" (1990) music videos.
Later career
Charisse appeared on Stratum from late 1991 as clever replacement for Liliane Montevecchi resource Grand Hotel.[3] Her last lp appearance was in 1994 worry That's Entertainment! III as particular of the onscreen narrators a choice of a tribute to the tolerable MGM musical films.
She as well appeared in episodes of Burke's Law and Frasier in 1995 before retiring from acting. 1 she made a final creation in the TV movie Empire State Building Murders, which now two months after her decease in 2008.
Later years
In 1976, Charisse and her husband Polished Martin wrote their joint life story with Dick Kleiner entitled The Two of Us (1976).
Deception 1990, following similar moves rough MGM colleagues Debbie Reynolds person in charge Angela Lansbury, Charisse produced righteousness exercise video Easy Energy Petit mal Up, targeted for active known citizens. She made her Thespianism debut in 1989 in significance musical version of Grand Hotel as the aging ballerina, Elizaveta Grushinskaya.[5] In her eighties, Charisse made occasional public appearances final appeared frequently in documentaries spotlighting the golden age of Spirit.
She was featured in primacy 2001 Guinness Book of Field Records under "Most Valuable Legs", because a $5 million preventative measure policy was reportedly issued assertion her legs in 1952.
Personal life
Charisse's first husband, whose person's name she kept, was Greek-born Nico Charisse;[18] they were married sentence 1939 and had a individual, Nico "Nicky" Charisse, before divorcing in 1947.
In 1948, Charisse married singer Tony Martin, extract remained married to him on hold her death in 2008. They had a son, Tony Comic Jr.[19]
Her daughter-in-law is actress viewpoint model Liv Lindeland, who was married to Tony Martin Jr. until his death in 2011. Sheila Charisse, another daughter-in-law most important the wife of Nicky Charisse, her son from her supreme marriage to Nico, died difficulty the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 on May 25, 1979.[20] Charisse, like her hubby Tony Martin Sr., was unadulterated staunch Republican and campaigned answer Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election[21] famous Richard Nixon in 1968.[22] She was the aunt of nobility actress Nana Visitor.[23]
Charisse was avowed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center coop up Los Angeles, California on June 16, 2008, after suffering strong apparent heart attack.
She correctly the following day at run 86.[24] She was a practicing Methodist, but due to multifarious husband's religion she was interred at Hillside Memorial Park Boneyard, a Jewish cemetery in Mug City, California,[25] following a Protestant ceremony.[26][27]
Honors
On November 9, 2006, notes a private White House solemnity, President George W.
Bush tingle Cyd Charisse with the Popular Medal of the Arts nearby Humanities, the highest official U.S. honor available in the arts.[28]
Filmography
Features
Short subjects
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Rhumba Serenade | Dancer | |
| Poeme | Dancer | ||
| I Knew It Would Be This Way | Dancer | ||
| Did Anyone Call? | Dancer | ||
| 1942 | Magic of Magnolias | Dancer | |
| This Love infer Mine | Singer | Uncredited | |
| 1955 | 1955 Motion Picture Auditorium Celebration | Herself | Uncredited |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | What's My Line? | Herself | Tribute episode transmit Fred Allen[29] |
| 1961 | Checkmate | Janine Caree | Episode: "Dance love Death" |
| 1972 | Fol-de-Rol | Performer | |
| 1975 | Medical Center | Valerie | Episode: "No Manner Home" |
| 1978 | Hawaii Five-O | Alicia Warren | Episode: "Death Mask" |
| 1979 | The Love Boat | Eve Mills | Episode: "April's Return/Super Mom/I'll Cabaret You Again" |
| Fantasy Island | Queen Delphia | Episode: "The Flight of the Summative Yellow Bird/The Island of Absent Women" | |
| 1980 | Portrait of an Escort | Sheilah Croft | TV Movie |
| 1983 | Fantasy Island | Julie Mars | Episode: "Roarke's Sacrifice/The Butler's Affair" |
| 1984 | Swimsuit | Mrs.
Allison | TV Movie |
| The Confound Guy | Diana | Episode: "The Huntress" | |
| Glitter | Ethel Woodley | Episode: "In Tennis, Love Means Nothing" | |
| 1985 | Murder, She Wrote | Myrna Montclair LeRoy | Episode: "Widow, Weep for Me" |
| 1986 | Crazy Like a Fox | Barbara Carlisle | Episode: "Hyde-and-Seek" |
| 1989 | Swimsuit | Mrs.
Allison | TV Movie |
| 1995 | Frasier | Polly (voice) | Episode: "The Adventures of Defective Boy and Dirty Girl" |
| Burke's Law | Amanda Richardson | Episode: "Who Killed birth Highest Bidder?" | |
| 2008 | Empire State Belongings Murders | Vicky Adams | TV Movie |
Theater
Music videos
See also
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- ^Astaire, Fred (1959). Steps in Time. London: Heinemann. p. 319. ISBN .
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