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.
Awards & recognition
- National Medal of Arts · 2006
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography41 titles
Singin' in the Rain
Frasier
Murder, She Wrote
That's Entertainment!
Hawaii Five-O
The Band Wagon
East Side, West Side
That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment, Part II
It's Always Fair Weather
What's My Line?
That's Dancing!
Party Girl
Silk Stockings
Tension
The Ed Sullivan Show
Deep in My Heart
Black Tights
The Harvey Girls
Brigadoon
The Love Boat
The Unfinished Dance
Great Performances
Easy to Love
The Silencers
Two Weeks in Another Town
Ziegfeld Follies
On an Island with You
Words and Music
Warlords of Atlantis
Till the Clouds Roll By
Mission to Moscow
Assassination in Rome
The Kissing Bandit
Swimsuit
Maroc 7
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Portrait of an Escort
Escort Girl