Cyd Charisse
Born March 08, 1922 (Age: 104)
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Amarillo, Texas, USA
Biography
Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American dancer and actress. After recovering from polio as a child and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s. Her roles usually featured 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), Brigadoon (1954), 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cyd Charisse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American dancer and actress. After recovering from polio as a child and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s.
Her roles usually featured 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), Brigadoon (1954), 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.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Cyd Charisse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
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It's Always Fair Weather: Going Out on a High Note
2006
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as Self (Archive Footage)
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Age: 84
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
2005
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as Self
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Age: 83
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
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as Self
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Age: 82
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002
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as Self
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Age: 80
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
2002
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as Self
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Age: 80
That's Entertainment! III
1994
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as Self - Co-Host / Narrator
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Age: 72
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Nylon Blues: A History of the Nylon Stocking
1991
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 68
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990
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as Self
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Age: 68
Dance Crazy in Hollywood
1990
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as Various Roles (archive footage)
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Age: 67
Swimsuit
1989
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as Mrs. Allison
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Age: 66
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
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as Self
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Age: 65
That's Dancing!
1985
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as
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Age: 62
Portrait of an Escort
1980
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as Sheilah Croft
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Age: 58
Warlords of Atlantis
1978
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as Atsil
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Age: 56
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 54
That's Entertainment!
1974
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 52
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 50
Fol-de-Rol
1972
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as Various Characters
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Age: 49
The Silencers
1966
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as Sarita
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Age: 43
Assassination in Rome
1965
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as Shelley North
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Age: 43
Two Weeks in Another Town
1962
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as Carlotta
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Age: 40
Something's Got to Give
1962
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as Bianca Russell Arden
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Age: 39
Black Tights
1961
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as The Widow
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Age: 39
Five Golden Hours
1961
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as Baroness Sandra
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Age: 38
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
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as Self
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Age: 36
Party Girl
1958
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as Vicki Gaye
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Age: 36
Twilight for the Gods
1958
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as Charlotte King
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Age: 36
Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956
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as Maria Corvier
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Age: 34
It's Always Fair Weather
1955
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as Jackie Leighton
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Age: 33
Deep in My Heart
1954
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as Performer in The Desert Song
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Age: 32
Brigadoon
1954
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as Fiona Campbell
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Age: 32
Easy to Love
1953
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as Model (uncredited)
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Age: 31
The Band Wagon
1953
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as Gabrielle Gerard
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Age: 31
Sombrero
1953
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as Lola de Torrano
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Age: 31
Ziegfeld Follies
1945
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as Ballerina (segment "Beauty")
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Age: 23
This Love of Mine
1942
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as Dancer (uncredited)
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Age: 19
The Gay Parisian
1942
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as Dancer (uncredited)
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Age: 19
Escort Girl
1941
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as Flamenco Dancer (uncredited)
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Age: 19
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Rhumba Serenade
1941
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as
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Age: 18