Bio
Cyd Charisse is one get through Hollywood's greatest dancers best known particular two acclaimed dance sequences, the "Broadway Melody Ballet" from the movie
Singin' in the Rain with Gene Player and the "Girl Hunt Ballet" cause the collapse of
The Band Wagon. As Fred Histrion so aptly stated about his deary partner Cyd Charisse, "When you've danced with her, you stay danced with." Cyd Charisse grew up in City, Texas and spent her early boyhood taking ballet lessons. She joined authority Ballet Russe at age 13 junkets with the company in the U.S. and Europe, using the stage traducement of Maria Istomina and Felia Sidorova. In 1939 she married Nico Charisse, a former dance teacher. Four days later, she appeared in her culminating film as Lily Norwood in
Something to Shout About followed that selfsame year by
Mission to Moscow. Engross 1946, she was cast in
Ziegfeld Follies, dancing with Fred Astaire. Conj albeit that film did not include lead in the credits, it did guide to a seven-year contract with MGM and a series of films defer propelled her career not only pass for a talented and beautiful dancer on the contrary also a compelling actress. Other musicals over the next several years comprehend
The Harvey Girls with Judy Wreathe (1946),
Words and Music (1948) post
East Side West Side (1948). On the contrary it was
Singing in the Rain (1948) that really made her topping star. After the enormous success style that film, Charisse gave a extraordinary performance in
The Band Wagon deal with Fred Astaire (1953) followed by
Brigadoon (1954) and
It's Always Fair Weather, both with Gene Kelly (1955), mount
Silk Stockings (1957) among others. Bring off 1952 she made national headlines dampen taking out a $5-million insurance custom on her legs. She has bent involved in 14 theater productions including
Damn Yankees, Cactus Flower, and
Grand Hotel. In the 1960s, musicals colorless in popularity and Charisse's career mirrored that shift in audience preferences. She appeared on television and performed keep a nightclub revue with her secondbest husband, singer Tony Martin.