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terryfrost at 09:24am on 18/06/2008
terryfrost at 09:24am on 18/06/2008She was great in The Bandwagon, It's Always Fair Weather and as Kirk Douglas' castrating ex-wife Carlotta in Two Weeks In Another Town...
Actress-dancer Cyd Charisse dies in L.A. at 86
By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - 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.
She appeared in dramatic films, but her fame came from the Technicolor
musicals of the 1940s and '50s.
Classically trained, she could dance anything, from a pas de deux in
1946's "Ziegfeld Follies" to the lowdown Mickey Spillane satire of
1956's "The Band Wagon" (with Astaire).
She also forged a popular song-and-dance partnership on television and
in nightclub appearances with her husband, singer Tony Bennett.
Her height was 5 feet, 6 inches, but in high heels and full-length
stockings, she seemed serenely tall, and she moved with extraordinary
grace. Her flawless beauty and jet-black hair contributed to an aura
of perfection that Astaire described in his 1959 memoir, "Steps in
Time," as "beautiful dynamite."
Actress-dancer Cyd Charisse dies in L.A. at 86
By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - 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.
She appeared in dramatic films, but her fame came from the Technicolor
musicals of the 1940s and '50s.
Classically trained, she could dance anything, from a pas de deux in
1946's "Ziegfeld Follies" to the lowdown Mickey Spillane satire of
1956's "The Band Wagon" (with Astaire).
She also forged a popular song-and-dance partnership on television and
in nightclub appearances with her husband, singer Tony Bennett.
Her height was 5 feet, 6 inches, but in high heels and full-length
stockings, she seemed serenely tall, and she moved with extraordinary
grace. Her flawless beauty and jet-black hair contributed to an aura
of perfection that Astaire described in his 1959 memoir, "Steps in
Time," as "beautiful dynamite."
sad
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