Question: Why star of The Belle of New York Dies in August of 1981?
Context: Erika Belle is an American socialite, art curator, fashion designer, and dancer, most known for her friendship and work with pop singer Madonna in the 1980s.  She has been featured dancing in Madonna's videos to "Everybody", "True Blue", "Papa Don't Preach", "Lucky Star", and "Holiday".  She collaborated on choreography to the videos and live shows, and performed with Madonna in various New York clubs and television programs such as "Top of the Pops". Hurricane Belle was a strong tropical cyclone that caused moderate damage across the East Coast of the United States in August 1976.  In late July, a tropical wave emerged off the west coast of Africa.  Traversing the Atlantic Ocean for more than a week, the system eventually consolidated into a tropical depression near the Bahamas on August 6.  Remaining nearly stationary for a day, the depression strengthened into a tropical storm on August 7 and a hurricane later that day as it acquired a northwest motion.  Formation of an eye accompanied quick intensification and Belle reached its peak the following day with winds of 120 mph (195 km/h).  The hurricane subsequently turned north and accelerated, skirting the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  Early on August 10, Belle made landfall on Long Island, New York, as a minimal hurricane crossing Long Island Sound and hitting the central coast of Connecticut as strong tropical storm.  Thereafter, Belle transitioned into an extratropical cyclone over New England before moving over Atlantic Canada.  The system turned east while over the north Atlantic and ultimately dissipated on August 15 to the south of Iceland. Vera-Ellen (born Vera-Ellen Westmeier Rohe; February 16, 1921 – August 30, 1981) was an American dancer and actress, principally Roman John "Ray" Piskor (August 19, 1917 – August 1981) was an American football tackle who played three seasons in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) between 1946 and 1948.  Piskor played for the New York Yankees, Cleveland Browns and the Chicago Rockets.  Piskor grew up in North Tonawanda, New York and attended Niagara University, where he was a star lineman.  After several years in the Army Air Force during World War II, he was signed by the Yankees in 1946.  Piskor was traded to the Browns the following year, when the team won the AAFC championship.  He spent a final season with the Rockets in 1948. Audrey McMahon (1898 – August 20, 1981) was the Director of the New York region of the Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1943; the region she oversaw included New York City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia.  Born in New York City in 1898, she attended the Sorbonne, and she was the director of the College Art Association.  She died August 20, 1981, at the age of 87.  Her approach to the administration of the Federal Art Project attempted to give the artists employed a great deal of freedom, and as she recalled later, "It is gratifying to note...that almost all of the painters, sculptors, graphic artists, and muralists who recall those days remember little or no artistic stricture."  As the Federal Art Project began its conclusion in 1939, McMahon worked to delay the liquidation process, and the program changed to become the Graphic Section of the War Services Division in 1942, wherein "mural painters designed and executed camouflage patterns for tanks, ships, and many military objects", until the program was liquidated in January 1943 and McMahon resigned. The Belle of New York is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Hollywood musical comedy film set in New York circa 1900 and stars Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Alice Pearce, Marjorie Main, Gale Robbins and Keenan Wynn, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.  The film was directed by Charles Walters. Wladimiro Politano was born in February 19, 1940 in Lago (Cosenza), Italy.  Graduated in the "Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma" and here he started his artistic development as a drawer, painter and sculptor.  He lived in Rome until 1966, when he moved to Caracas, Venezuela.  Seven years later he went to New York where he lived for ten years.  During this period of time Politano participated in different public and private exhibitions in the United States, Austria, Japan, Venezuela and Italy.  He produced plenty and a wide variety of art works exhibited in several national and international galleries and museums.  The Künstlerhause Museum of Vienna invited him in 1978, as the only foreign artist, to celebrate the One Hundred Years of the Künstlerhause Museum, together with the outstanding Austrian artists from the School of Fantastic Realism.  There he realized an individual exhibition.  Because of his grand merits, in July 1980, the city of New Rochelle N.Y. awarded him the title “Commendatio ”.  In 1981 Politano and others great masters inaugurated “The Museum of Modern Art Toyama” in Shingogaura, Toyama-Shi, in Japan, where two of his paintings are present in permanent exhibition.  In Florida he received the “Sylvia Daro Dawidowicz International Award” directly by the president herself.  In 1983, he returns to Caracas to work with both private and public projects.  Participate in Caracas to "Escultura Symposium 1985" and his model remained as a symbol of the "VIII Biennale of Architecture" in the "Museo de Bellas Artes" and then will be constructed in large dimension.  This sculpture is called "Puntas de Plata" and is in permanent exhibition at the Caracas’s Metro, Station "El Silencio”.  Politano in this period lived and worked between Venezuela, Italy and Sweden.  In 2003, he was invited as a curator and artist to participate in the "II Biennial of Painting" in Konstgall Väsby, Stockholm, Sweden.  Here master Politano took part in various collective exhibitions and dealings with different cultures.  The colors of nature so different from the tropical enrich the color molded in his paintings.  Creating and animating works, constantly renewing itself without fatigue, such as an apostle of Art.  He was invited to the first International Sculpture Symposium 2007 SIEIM made in 'Margarita Island, Nueva Esparta Venezuela.  For an outstanding art creativity and important artistic production outside his native country, he received the most important awards from the President of Italy, ”The Italy in the World Award”.  This shows the quality of majestic artistry whose creation is based on passion, originality, expertise in drawing and a tireless work.  Today, Politano lives between Caracas, Rome, Lago-Calabria and Stockholm, places where he has his Studios and will soon will open a new one at Miami. Sarah Blacher Cohen (June 11, 1936 in Appleton, Wisconsin, – November 10, 2008 in Albany, New York) was a writer, scholar, and playwright, and a professor at SUNY Albany for 30 years.  Her area of specialty was Jewish American fiction.  Her published books include "Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature", "Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter" (1974), and "Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art: From Levity to Liturgy".  She edited "From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screen" (Jewish Literature and Culture Series), "Making a Scene: The Contemporary Drama of Jewish-American Women", and "Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor".  Her plays include "The Ladies Locker Room", and "Molly Picon's Return Engagement", a biographical play with music on the star of Yiddish theater.  She collaborated with Joanne Koch, starting in 1989 on "Sophie, Totie, and Belle", a musical on performers Sophie Tucker, Totie Fields, and Belle Barth.  'She and Joanne Koch also co-authored the plays "Danny Kaye: Supreme Court Jester", "Soul Sisters", "Henrietta Szold: Woman of Valor", an adaptation of Saul Bellow stories entitled "Saul Bellow's Stories Onstage: The Old System and a Silver Dish", and the multicultural musical "Soul Sisters".  Cohen and Koch co-edited an anthology of ten plays "Shared Stages: Ten American Dramas of Blacks and Jews", including "Driving Miss Daisy", "Fires in the Mirror", and "Soul Sisters".  She collaborated with Isaac Bashevis Singer on the off-Broadway play "Schlemiel the First".  Cohen also gave talks and delivered papers, including "The Unkosher Comediennes: From Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers."  She was married to Gary Cohen.  She died of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease on November 10, 2008 age 72. City of New York was a British built passenger liner of the Inman Line that was designed to be the largest and fastest liner on the Atlantic.  When she entered service in August 1888, she was the first twin screw express liner and while she did not achieve the westbound Blue Riband, she ultimately held the eastbound record from August 1892 to May 1893 at a speed of 20.11 knots.  "City of New York", and her sister "City of Paris" are considered especially beautiful ships and throughout their careers were rivals to the White Star "Teutonic" and "Majestic".  In February 1893, the Inman Line was merged into the American Line and by act of Congress, the renamed "New York" was transferred to the US flag.  Beginning in the mid-1890s, "New York" and "Paris" were paired with "St Louis" and "St Paul" to form one of the premier Atlantic services.  "New York" continued with the American Line until 1920 and was broken for scrap in 1923.  She served the US Navy as "Harvard" during the Spanish–American War and "Plattsburg" in World War I.  She is also remembered for nearly colliding with the RMS "Titanic" as the latter ship began her doomed maiden voyage in 1912. Star Driver also known as Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto (Japanese: STAR DRIVER 輝きのタクト , Hepburn: Sutā Doraibā Kagayaki no Takuto , lit.  STAR DRIVER: Shining Takuto) is a 2010 Japanese anime television series created and animated by Bones.  The series is directed by Takuya Igarashi, with character designs by Yoshiyuki Ito and Hiroka and Misa Mizuya.  The anime premiered on October 3, 2010, on MBS-TBS's prime Sunday 5pm timeslot, replacing "".  Aniplex of America premiered the first episode at the 2010 New York Comic Con/New York Anime Festival on October 9, 2010.  Bandai Entertainment formerly licensed the series, but due to February when Bandai stopped selling DVDs and Blu-ray discs, they also cancelled licensing with other anime.  Star Driver was one of them.  The series has been licensed by Aniplex of America and was streamed with English subtitles on Hulu, Crackle, and on Crunchyroll starting on August 17, 2011.  A film based in the series was released on February 9, 2013 in Japan by Shochiku.
Answer: Vera-Ellen