1000+ images about Tony Martin (1913-2012) Cyd Charisse (1922-2008) on Pinterest | Ballet, Martin o'malley and Actresses Find best value and selection for your CYD CHARISSE MOVIE STAR actress PINUP CHEESECAKE modern photo postcard search on eBay. World's leading marketplace. See More 04 | December | 2009 | Pin-up artists Pin-up artists December 4, 2009 Leave a comment Cyd Charisse Charisse in 1987, by Allan Warren Born Tula Ellice Finklea March 8, 1922(1922-03-08) Amarillo, Texas, U.S. Died June 17, 2008 (aged 86) Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Other names Lily Norwood, Felia Siderova, Maria Istomina Occupation Actress/Dancer Years active 1943–1995 Spouse Nico Charisse (1939–1947) Tony Martin (1948–2008) Website Cyd Charisse (March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American actress and dancer.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s. Her roles usually focussed on her abilities as a dancer, and she was paired with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly; her films include Singin’ in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953) and Silk Stockings (1957). She stopped dancing in films in the late 1950s, but continued acting in film and television, and in 1992 made her Broadway debut.In her later years, she discussed the history of the Hollywood musical in documentaries, and participated in That’s Entertainment! III in 1994.

She was awarded the National Medal of the Arts and Humanities in 2006. Contents 6 External links Charisse was born as Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Lela (née Norwood) and Ernest Enos Finklea, Sr., who was a jeweler. [1] [2] Her nickname “Sid” was taken from a sibling trying to say “Sis”. [3] (It was later spelled “Cyd” at MGM to give her an air of mystery.) She was a sickly girl who started dancing lessons at six to build up her strength after a bout with polio. At 12, she studied ballet in Los Angeles with Adolph Bolm and Bronislava Nijinska, and at 14, she auditioned for and subsequently danced in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as “Felia Siderova” [4] [5] and, later, “Maria Istomina”. [5] During a European tour, she met up again with Nico Charisse, a handsome young dancer she had studied with for a time in Los Angeles. They married in Paris in 1939.

They had a son, Nicky, born in 1942. [3] The outbreak of World War II led to the break-up of the company, and when Charisse returned to Los Angeles, David Lichine offered her a dancing role in Gregory Ratoff‘s Something to Shout About. This brought her to the attention of choreographer Robert Alton — who had also discovered Gene Kelly — and soon she joined the Freed Unit at MGM, where she became the resident MGM ballet dancer. [4] Charisse was principally celebrated for her on-screen pairings with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. She first appeared with Astaire in a brief routine in Ziegfeld Follies (produced in 1944 and released in 1946). Her next appearance with him was as lead female role in The Band Wagon (1953), where she danced with Astaire in the acclaimed “Dancing in the Dark” and “Girl Hunt Ballet” routines. Another early role cast her opposite Judy Garland in the 1946 film The Harvey Girls.

Charisse and Gene Kelly in the “Broadway Melody Ballet” sequence from Singin’ in the RainAs Debbie Reynolds was not a trained dancer, Gene Kelly chose Charisse to partner him in the celebrated “Broadway Melody” ballet finale from Singin’ in the Rain (1952), and she co-starred with Kelly in 1954’s Scottish-themed musical film Brigadoon. She again took the lead female role alongside Kelly in his penultimate MGM musical It’s Always Fair Weather (1956). [6] In 1957, she rejoined Astaire in the film version of Silk Stockings, a musical remake of 1939’s Ninotchka, with Charisse taking over Greta Garbo‘s role. In his autobiography, Astaire paid tribute to Charisse, calling her “beautiful dynamite” and writing: “That Cyd! When you’ve danced with her you stay danced with.” [7] [8] In her autobiography, Charisse reflected on her experience with Astaire and Kelly: “As one of the handful of girls who worked with both of those dance geniuses, I think I can give an honest comparison.

In my opinion, Kelly is the more inventive choreographer of the two. Astaire, with Hermes Pan‘s help, creates fabulous numbers — for himself and his partner. But Kelly can create an entire number for somebody else … I think, however, that Astaire’s coordination is better than Kelly’s … his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger of the two. When he lifts you, he lifts you! … To sum it up, I’d say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on screen. But it’s like comparing apples and oranges. They’re both delicious.” [9] Charisse and Fred Astaire “dancing in the dark” in The Band Wagon.After the decline of the Hollywood musical in the late 1950s, Charisse retired from dancing but continued to appear in film and TV productions from the 1960s through the 1990s. She had a supporting role in “Something’s Got To Give“, the last, unfinished film of Marilyn Monroe.

She made cameo appearances in Blue Mercedes‘s “I Want To Be Your Property” (1987) and Janet Jackson‘s “Alright” (1990) music videos.Her last film appearance was in 1994 in That’s Entertainment! III as on e of the onscreen narrators of a tribute to the great MGM musical films. Charisse was married to singer Tony Martin from 1948 until her death. The marriage lasted almost 60 years, a notable length among Hollywood marriages, matched in 2008 amongst living American actors by only Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson (also married in 1948).[citation needed] Her first husband, whose surname she kept, was Nico Charisse (March 1906 – April 1970); [10] they were married from 1939 to 1947.She had two sons, Nico “Nicky” Charisse from her first marriage, and Tony Martin, Jr., born 1950, from her second. One of her daughters-in-law is Liv Lindeland, who was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Year for 1972.

A niece of hers by marriage is actress Nana Visitor.Charisse wrote a joint biography with Martin (and Dick Kleiner) entitled The Two of Us (1976). She was featured in the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records under “Most Valuable Legs”, since a $5 million insurance policy was reportedly accepted on her legs in 1952. MGM was reputed to have insured her legs for a million dollars each, but Charisse later revealed that that had been an invention of the MGM publicity machine.Her daughter-in-law, Sheila Charisse, was a victim of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 in 1979.In 1990, following similar moves by MGM colleagues Debbie Reynolds and Angela Lansbury, Charisse produced the exercise video Easy Energy Shape Up, targeted for active senior citizens. In her eighties, Charisse made occasional public appearances and appeared frequently in documentaries spotlighting the golden age of Hollywood. She made her Broadway debut in 1992 in the musical version of Grand Hotel as the aging ballerina, Elizaveta Grushinskaya.

[3] Publicist Gene Schwam said Charisse was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, on June 16, 2008 after suffering an apparent heart attack. She died the following day, aged 86. [11] She was buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City on June 22, 2008. Accepting the National Medal of Arts and Humanities Award in 2006, photo by Paul MorseOn November 9, 2006, in a private White House ceremony, President George W. Bush presented Cyd Charisse with the National Medal of the Arts and Humanities, the highest official U.S. honor available in the arts.

[12] Features: Something to Shout About (1943) Mission to Moscow (1943) Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) Fiesta (1947) On an Island with You (1948) The Kissing Bandit (1948) East Side, West Side (1949) Tension (1950) Mark of the Renegade (1951) Singin’ in the Rain (1952) The Wild North (1952) Easy to Love (1953) (Cameo) Brigadoon (1954) Deep in My Heart (1954) It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) Silk Stockings (1957) Twilight for the Gods (1958) Party Girl (1958) Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) Something’s Got To Give (1962), unfinished Assassination in Rome (1965) Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) Warlords of Atlantis (197

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Singin’ in the Rain. London: British Film Institute. pp. 42. ISBN 0-81570-351-8. ^ a b Missiaen, Jean-Claude (1978). Cyd Charisse, du ballet classique à la comédie musicale. Paris: Henri Veyrier. pp. 38. ISBN 2-85199-186-8. ^ Charisse’s singing voice was usually dubbed in her musical film appearances, most often by India Adams. ^ Astaire, Fred (1959). Steps in Time. London: Heinemann. pp. 319. ISBN 0-241-11749-6. ^ In a documentary on the making of The Band Wagon (included in that film’s 2006 DVD release), Charisse cites Astaire’s tribute as: “When you dance with Cyd Charisse, you’ve been danced with”. Findarticles.com ^ Charisse, Cyd; Tony Martin, Dick Kleiner (1976). The Two of Us. New York: Mason/Charter.

ISBN 0-884-053636. Cyd Charisse, star of Hollywood's golden era, dies aged 86 | Film | The Guardian Cyd Charisse, star of Hollywood's golden era, dies aged 86 Cyd Charisse. Photograph: Hulton archive/Getty Wednesday 18 June 2008 04.22 EDT First published on Wednesday 18 June 2008 04.22 EDT Close This article is 8 years old Cyd Charisse, the Texan dancer and actor who made her name in the Technicolor glory days of Hollywood musicals, starring with Gene Kelly in the famous Broadway Melody Ballet scene in Singin' in the Rain, has died in Los Angeles aged 86. Charisse suffered an apparent heart attack and was admitted to hospital on Monday, her publicist said. Her exceptional dancing ability had emerged from a young age when, as a teenager, she appeared with the Ballet Russe. She came to the notice of movie-makers in the 40s who were transferring the disciplines of ballet onto celluloid.

"Honestly, the idea of working movies had never once entered my head," she wrote in an autobiography shared with her second husband, Tony Martin. "I was a dancer, not an actress. I had no delusions about myself. I couldn't act ... So how could I be a movie star?" Despite her anxieties, she prospered in the new form, dancing with Kelly and Fred Astaire in Silk Stockings. At the height of her fame, MGM boasted that her legs were insured for $1m. Her breakthrough came with Singin' in the Rain in 1952 when she astonished cinema-goers with her dancing skills, her flowing white dress and 25-foot Chinese silk scarf that floated in the air, blown by a wind machine. Charisse, was born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, in 1922. She married Nico Charisse, a dancer she had trained with in Los Angeles, in Paris in 1939. That marriage produced a son Nicky, and ended in divorce in 1947. She married Martin a year later, and entered a long double act with him of singing and dancing. The couple had a son, Tony Jr.

Gene Kelly (I) - News NEWS No 41: Debbie Reynolds , 1932- She was born in Texas, her father a railway carpenter, and raised in Los Angeles, a stone's throw from Warner Brothers, who signed her up at 16 but shortly thereafter let her go to MGM. Every studio had a roster of ingénues and girls-next-door, and she appeared in endless movies as a pert kid. Her 1955 marriage to Eddie Fisher made them the ideal couple of the Eisenhower years, though the idyll was smashed when he left her for Elizabeth Taylor . Reynolds was one of the top 10 box-office stars in 1959, but her movie career soon went into decline. She was, however, to work regularly in TV and nightclubs and on stage way into her 60s. She cites the saccharine The Singing Nun (1966), in which she played the wimpled Belgian singer " Soeur Sourire ", as her favourite film.

Yet in truth she only made three really memorable appearances, one » - Philip French 19 November 2008 8:14 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news » Comedy scriptwriter Irving Brecher has died at the age of 94. He passed away on Monday in Los Angeles after a series of heart attacks last week (beg10Nov08). His most notable work included the vaudeville sketches he penned for Milton Berle and comedies he wrote for the Marx Brothers - including a solo credit on 1940 film Go West . Early in his career, Brecher was an uncredited script doctor on The Wizard of Oz , leading Groucho Marx to call him The Wicked Wit of the West - the title of his autobiography, which is scheduled to hit shelves in January. Brecher was also nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for Meet Me in St. Louis , starring Judy Garland . In addition to the silver screen, Brecher also turned his talents to radio, creating long-running series The Life of Riley - later adapted into a feature film and TV series in 1949. He is survived by his wife, Norma, and three stepchildren.

» 30 October 2008 9:37 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news » By Matt Singer We're getting into the Halloween spirit at IFC.com this week by taking a look back at some famous movie makeup jobs (that are, at minimum, 25 years old) that have maintained their power to scare the bejeezus out of viewers. These kids today with their computer generated imagery and their Blu-rays and their " Saw V "s! Back in our day, we didn't have computers to do our imagination's dirty work for us. Visionary artists had only prosthetics, wire, plaster, rubber and a whole lot of Karo syrup to bring their creations to life! Back in our day, these were the movies you rented on Halloween! At the video store! As far as we're concerned, they still should be. And don't you dare teepee our Web site or we're calling the cops. [Part one of our list can be found here.] 19 October 2008 8:27 PM, PDT | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news » Hollywood designer and creator of the Worst Dressed List, Mr.

Blackwell, passed away today after complications from an intestinal infection. He was 86. Blackwell is best known for his annual Worst Dressed list that names the biggest fashion disasters of the year. Born by the name of Richard Sylvan Selzer , Blackwell was renamed by Howard Hughes . In the early 1960's, Blackwell became one of the top designers with his line that created fashions for many celebrities and political wives such as Nancy Reagan and Corretta Scott King. As a young man Blackwell played small acting roles alongside greats like Humphrey Bogart and Gene Kelly while going to school with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney . Blackwell leaves behind his partner of almost 60 years, R.L. Spencer. [Read full story on The Insider] » - TheInsider 9 September 2008 9:02 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news » In 1952, MGM's musical masterpiece Singin' In The Rain suffered some by coming in the immediate wake of An American In Paris , a Best Picture-winning prestige effort that at the time was considered the height of Hollywood musical sophistication.

Over the past few decades, though, the tide has turned. Singin' In The Rain has become a cudgel with which to beat the bloated, somewhat pretentious An American In Paris , such that now it's the Oscar-winner which may be underrated. Much of what's bothersome about An American In Paris can be attributed to its ambition, along with a well-meaning but obnoxious reactionary streak. This is a movie that honors its hero, a mediocre representational painter played by Gene Kelly , for standing against the tide of airy-fairy art-world abstraction. And yet MGM's crack creative team—led by director Vincente Minnelli —went a little arty themselves, abandoning conventional narrative after 90-odd minutes to resolve the. » - Noel Murray 22 July 2008 3:57 PM, PDT | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news » It's true! Supermodel Heidi Klum is famous for her long legs, and now she's confirmed to "The Insider" that one is actually worth more than the other, according to a London appraiser who recently insured them both for a hefty $2.2 million.

The Victoria's Secret strutter's right gam is insured for $1.2 million, but her left is worth only $1 million. Why the discrepancy? A little scar on her left limb. Heidi isn't the only celeb to have her stems insured. Former Hollywood pin-up Betty Grable , Et host Mary Hart , Riverdancer Michael Flatley , screen legend Gene Kelly , redheaded model Angie Everhart and even Jamie Lee Curtis have all taken out policies on their legs. [Read full story on The Insider] » - TheInsider 18 June 2008 1:19 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news » Musical star Cyd Charisse has died of a heart attack, aged 87. The actress-dancer passed away in hospital in La after falling ill on Monday, her publicist said. Charisse was best known for dancing with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire in Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and '50s. At the peak of her career, her long legs were insured for $$1 million.

She was born Tula Ellice Finklea in 1921 and began her career dancing with the Ballet Russe in her teens. She landed a small part in Hollywood film Something To Shout About in 1943 and was later signed to MGM. The studio gave her a seven-year contract and changed her name to Cyd Charisse , a combination of childhood nickname Sid and the surname (more) » - By Beth Hilton 17 June 2008 6:48 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news » Beloved actress/dancer Cyd Charisse has died in a Los Angeles hospital. The 86-year-old reportedly suffered a heart attack on Monday and was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she died on Tuesday. Born Tula Ellice Finklea in Texas in 1921, Charisse studied ballet in Los Angeles and performed as Siderova in the Ballet Russes up until World War II, when she returned to California to embark on a movie career.

She became a staple in movie musicals throughout the 1940s and 1950s, appearing alongside Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in films like Ziegfeld Follies , The Band Wagon , Silk Stockings and Brigadoon . She retired from dancing in the late 1950s to become a straight actress. Charisse took her surname from her first husband Nico Charisse, who she wed in 1939. She was married to singer Tony Martin for 60 years up until her death. The actress/dancer was presented with America's highest artistic honour, the National Medal of the Arts + Humanities, by President George W. Bush in 2006. » Actress and Dancer Cyd Charisse Dies at 86 17 June 2008 3:34 PM, PDT | IMDb News Cyd Charisse , the dancer and actress who appeared in such film musicals as Singin' in the Rain , The Band Wagon , and Silk Stockings , died Tuesday in Los Angeles after suffering an apparent heart attack; she was 86.

Born Tula Ellice Finklea in Texas, the young dancer was classically trained in Los Angeles and at 14 became part of the Ballet Russe, traveling through the US and Europe and performing under the names "Celia Siderova" and "Maria Istromena." She married the dancer Nico Charisse in Paris in 1939 and had a son, Nicky, in 1942. When the Ballet Russe disbanded at the beginning of World War II, Charisse returned to Hollywood and became the resident ballet star at MGM, just as the studio was beginning its run of sumptuous Technicolor musicals. She signed a seven-year contract with the studio, was given the exotic first name "Cyd," and was seen as a featured dancer in numerous films such as Ziegfeld Follies , where she performed with Fred Astaire . She also divorced and later married singer Tony Martin in 1948, with whom she had a second son. Her breakthrough came in the 1952 classic Singin' in the Rain when she was paired with Gene Kelly in the climactic "Broadway Melody" number near the end of the film.

Throughout the 1950s she starred in a number of other classic musicals: with Kelly again in Brigadoon and It's Always Fair Weather and with Astaire in The Band Wagon in Silk Stockings . As the big-screen Hollywood musical began to wane in popularity, Charisse switched to dramatic films, and also appeared in numerous television shows. In 1992 she made her Broadway debut in the stage version of Grand Hotel, and made an appearance in Janet Jackson's 1990 video "Alright." She is survived by her husband and two sons. » - IMDb Staff 17 June 2008 11:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news » Cyd Charisse , the long-legged Texas beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly , died Tuesday. She was 86. Charisse was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Monday after suffering an apparent heart attack, said her publicist, Gene Schwam .

It was her uncredited turn opposite Astaire in " Ziegfeld Follies " in 1946 that won her a seven-year contract with MGM. Her moves with Astaire in Vincent Minnelli's "Band Wagon" were often described as "heavenly." One of the greatest female dancers in the heyday of the Hollywood musical, she starred in such big-screen extravaganzas as " Brigadoon " (1954) and as a young Vicki Carr in " The Silencers " (1966). While she strutted her considerable stuff on the screen, her singing was invariably dubbed. Though she didn't often spend much time on the screen, her scenes made dramatic impact.

Outfitted in the most splendid costumes, she wowed » - By Duane Byrge 17 June 2008 3:00 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news » Movie dancer Cyd Charisse – whose elegant legwork wooed Fred Astaire in such classic '50s musicals as The Band Wagon and Silk Stockings and Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain and Brigadoon – died early Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering an apparent heart attack, says her rep. She was 86. The resident MGM ballet dancer at the height of Hollywood's golden era of musicals had danced in the Ballet Russes before landing at the studio – though for all the glamour she exuded, Charisse, who was adored by her coworkers, was often referred to by her real name, Tula Finklea, from Amarillo Texas.

» 6 May 2008 4:00 AM, PDT | buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news » Fresh from the High School Musical 3 press conference on Friday, the cast of the highly successful made-for-tv movie headed out to Utah to shoot their third installment, which will hit the big screen for the first time this October. During the press conference, the cast talked about some major developments in the plot and characters of the third movie, which will follow the Wild Cats in their last year in high school. Vanessa Hudgens , who plays squeaky clean and super sweet Gabriella Montez since High School Musical 's debut in January 2006, says that the third movie is “the last chapter for the Wildcats.” Nonetheless, she says it's good to be back in Utah, as it definitely “feels like home—being back here with everyone, it's amazing.” As for the new characters we're going to meet in the third movie, Hudgens assures us that “they're all real characters that you know and see in high school.

» - BuddyTV Family Announcements, Cyd Charisse - Funeral Directors and services - Family Announcements Announcements Originally printed on June 18, 2008 in the Family Announcements. Viewed by 381 Visitors. Cyd Charisse, the American actress and dancer, who was known to thousands of moviegoers for her performances with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, died on 17 June, 2008, aged 86. Her long legs were such an asset to her employers MGM that they reputedly insured them for $1 million dollars each. She later revealed this had been a publicity stunt. Nevertheless, her famous pins earned her an entry in the 2001 Guinness Book of Records under ‘Most Valuable Legs’ as a $5 million insurance policy was reportedly accepted on her legs in 1952. She was born on 8 March, 1922, as Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Lela and Ernest Enos Finklea, Sr., who was a jeweller. Her nickname was Sid which was changed to Cyd by MGM to give her an air of mystery.

As a girl she was sickly and turned to dancing to build up her strength after a bout of polio. This led to her studying ballet and joining the Ballet Russe when she was still a teenager. In her early twenties she joined MGM as the resident ballet dancer. She first appeared with Astaire in a brief routine in Ziegfeld Follies, released in 1946. She also performed with him in The Band Wagon (1953) and Silk Stockings (1957). Gene Kelly chose her to partner him in the celebrated "Broadway Melody" ballet finale from Singin' in the Rain (1952). She also co-starred with Kelly in 1954's Scottish-themed musical film Brigadoon and the MGM musical It's Always Fair Weather (1956). Astaire paid tribute to Charisse, writing: "That Cyd! When you've danced with her you stay danced with." "Her beauty was breathtaking," Debbie Reynolds, who starred with Cyd Charisse inSingin' in the Rain, said in a statement.

"The world will miss her dancing." She retired from dancing after the decline of the great technicolour Hollywood musicals of the 1950s, but continued to appear in film and TV productions up until the 1990s. She made cameo appearances in Blue Mercedes's I Want To Be Your Property (1987) and Janet Jackson's Alright (1990) music videos. When she was 70 she made her Broadway debut in the musical version of Grand Hotel as the ageing ballerina. In 2006, President George W. Bush presented Cyd Charisse with the National Medal of the Arts and Humanities, the highest official U.S. honour available in the arts. She was married twice, first to the French dancer Nico Charisse, with whom she had a son, Nicky, and then to the singer Tony Martin from 1948 till her death. It was one of the longest lasting marriages in Hollywood. She was also survived by her son, Tony Martin Jr. Her publicist Gene Schwam said she was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on 16 June, 2008 after suffering an apparent heart attack.

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When you've danced with her you stay danced with." informer.com hometheater.co.il In her autobiography, Charisse reflected on her experience with Astaire and Kelly: "As one of the handful of girls who worked with both of those dance geniuses, I think I can give an honest comparison. In my opinion, Kelly is the more inventive choreographer of the two. Astaire, with atzuma.co.il 's help, creates fabulous numbers — for himself and his partner. But Kelly can create an entire number for somebody else ... I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's ... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger of the two. When he lifts you, he lifts you! ... To sum it up, I'd say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on screen. But it's like comparing apples and oranges. They're both delicious." wesell.co.il/user/Reports dstudent.co.il Charisse and tlvmedia.com "dancing in the dark" in mediafire.com .

After the decline of the Hollywood musical in the late 1950s, Charisse retired from dancing but continued to appear in film and TV productions from the 1960s through the 1990s. She had a supporting role in " iatraf.co.il ", the last, unfinished film of cet.ac.il . She made cameo appearances in clickbank.com 's "I Want To Be Your Property" (1987) and takdin.co.il 's " tik-tak.co.il " (1990) music videos. Her last film appearance was in 1994 in youjizz.com as one of the onscreen narrators of a tribute to the great MGM musical films. [ zvz.co.il ] Personal life Charisse was married to singer wesell.co.il/user/Reports from 1948 until her death.

The marriage lasted almost 60 years, a notable length among bin.co.il marriages, matched in 2008 amongst living American actors by only walla.co.il and bezeq.co.il (also married in 1948).[ letitbit.net ] Her first husband, whose surname she kept, was Nico Charisse (March 1906 - April 1970); advmaker.ru they were married from 1939 to 1947. She had two sons, Nico "Nicky" Charisse from her first marriage, and Tony Martin, Jr., born 1950, from her second. One of her daughters-in-law is onlyu.co.il , who was megaupload.com magazine's mekusharim.co.il for 1972. A niece of hers by marriage is actress ebay.com . Charisse wrote a joint biography with Martin (and Dick Kleiner) entitled The Two of Us (1976). She was featured in the 2001 מפרשים under "Most Valuable Legs", since a $5 million insurance policy was reportedly accepted on her legs in 1952.

MGM was reputed to have insured her legs for a million dollars each, but Charisse later revealed that that had been an invention of the MGM publicity machine. Her daughter-in-law, Sheila Charisse, was a victim of the crash of idc.ac.il in 1979. In 1990, following similar moves by MGM colleagues מרק and link4u.co.il , Charisse produced the exercise video Easy Energy Shape Up, targeted for active senior citizens. [ מרינות ] Later years and death In her eighties, Charisse made occasional public appearances and appeared frequently in documentaries spotlighting the golden age of Hollywood. She made her Broadway debut in 1992 in the musical version of twitpic.com as the aging msn.com , Elizaveta Grushinskaya. jobnet.co.il Publicist Gene Schwam said Charisse was admitted to ציר בשר in webkinz.com , on June 16, 2008 after suffering an apparent torrents.ru . She died the following day, aged 86. torec.net She was buried at travians.com in idf.il on June 22, 2008.

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CYD Charisse was the leggy beauty whose balletic grace made her a memorable partner for Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in classic MGM musicals such as Singin' in the Rain, The Band Wagon and Brigadoon. Charisse came of age in a sparkling era of Hollywood musicals, and though she had some dramatic film roles, it was in musicals that she achieved her lasting renown. That fame later helped power a successful song-and-dance partnership with her husband, Tony Martin, in nightclubs and on television. In his 1959 memoir Steps in Time, Astaire called Charisse "beautiful dynamite". She was a striking presence on film: slender and graceful with jet-black hair. She stood 5ft 7in, but in high heels and full-length stockings – a familiar costume for her – she appeared much taller. She made her film debut in 1943 under the name Lily Norwood in Something to Shout About with Don Ameche and Janet Blair, then spent almost a decade performing in small roles, sometimes anonymously, before she got her big break. That came with Singin' in the Rain, released in 1952.

Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, the film established her as one of Hollywood's most glamorous and seductive talents. Set during the dawn of talking pictures, Singin' in the Rain starred Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Jean Hagen. Charisse appeared in only one of the film's many indelible dance sequences, but one was enough. During the Broadway Melody Ballet, opposite Kelly, she was both sultry vamp and diaphanous dream girl. A year later, The Band Wagon brought Charisse her first leading role. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, with a book by Comden and Green and songs by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, the film starred Astaire, Charisse, Oscar Levant and Nanette Fabray. Astaire played a fading Hollywood song-and-dance man hoping to make a comeback on Broadway who finds himself cast in a show opposite a snooty ballerina (Charisse). The couple do not see eye to eye until they take a nighttime carriage ride through a moonlit Central Park and wind up embracing languorously to the strains of Dancing in the Dark.

One of the most famous sequences from the film, if not in the history of dance on film, is The Girl Hunt Ballet, in which Charisse plays the vamp to Astaire's private-eye stage character. In Brigadoon (1954), also directed by Minnelli and adapted from the 1947 Broadway show by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Kelly and Van Johnson played American tourists who stumble on a mysterious Scottish village that materialises only once every 100 years. Kelly falls hard for a beautiful villager, Fiona (Charisse). They danced to The Heather on the Hill. Cyd Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas. She began taking dance lessons as a little girl. Her many name changes began, so the story goes, when her brother had trouble pronouncing "sister" and settled for "Sid". While still a teenager, she was sent to California for professional dance training and quickly became a member of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, a touring troupe, adopting the name Felia Sidorova. She was on a European tour when she met Nico Charisse, a handsome young dancer and dance instructor.

They married in Paris when she was 18. In 1942, they had a son, Nicky. By the early 1940s, Charisse had been spotted by studio scouts and her first film roles – as Lily Norwood – followed. (She also appeared anonymously in 1943 as a ballerina in Mission to Moscow.) In 1946, MGM, by then the king of Hollywood musicals, signed her to a contract and gave her minor roles in several films, including The Harvey Girls, Till the Clouds Roll By and Ziegfeld Follies, in which she danced a brief opening sequence with Astaire. When she was chosen to appear in Ziegfeld Follies, the producer Arthur Freed preferred the name Charisse to Norwood. The next year, Charisse played a ballerina once again in The Unfinished Dance, which featured the child star Margaret O'Brien as a dance student. Charisse was reunited with Kelly in the 1955 Comden and Green musical It's Always Fair Weather and was teamed with Fred Astaire in Silk Stockings (1957).

In the latter, an update of the Greta Garbo vehicle Ninotchka, she played an icy Soviet functionary who is sent to Paris, where she meets and is romanced by a Hollywood producer (Astaire). Needless to say, she melts for Fred as they sing and dance to Cole Porter songs including All of You and Fated to Be Mated. It was the twilight of the Hollywood musical. In November 2006, Charisse was one of the recipients of the National Medal of Arts presented by the US president, George Bush at the White House. Looking back on her work with Kelly and Astaire during a 2002 interview, Charisse said that her husband, Tony Martin, whom she married in 1948, a year after her divorce from Nico Charisse, always knew whom she had been dancing with. "If I was black and blue," she said, "it was Gene. And if it was Fred, I didn't have a scratch." In a 1992 interview, she remembered dancing with Astaire to Michael Kidd's demanding choreography in Silk Stockings and said admiringly: "Fred moved like glass." As it turned out, Silk Stockings was her last major musical.

She appeared in a few more movies, chiefly in dramatic roles in films such as Party Girl (1958) and Two Weeks in Another Town (1962). She and Martin took their nightclub act to Las Vegas and other cities. Her last film was an Italian drama, Private Screenings (1989). Charisse made her belated Broadway debut in 1992 in Grand Hotel, when she replaced Liliane Montevecchi in the leading role of a famous but ageing ballerina in 1920s Berlin. "I think that in all my dancing I play a role," she said that year. "To me, that's what dancing is about. It's not just steps." She is survived by her husband, Tony Martin; their son, Tony Jnr; and her son, Nicky, by her first marriage. PHIL DAVISON Comments: We are experiencing technical difficulties which mean some visitors to scotsman.com may be unable to post a message on our comment threads. Our digital support team is working to resolve this problem. Apologies for the interruption in service.

Question: Which film actress, born Tula Finklea in Texas in 1922, died in June 2008, aged 88?
Answer: CYD CHARISSE