Actress-dancer Cyd Charisse dies in L.A. at 86

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  1. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 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 1950s.

    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 Martin.



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    I will miss her charm, beauty and talent that many of todays actresses can't seem to find. I always enjoyed anything that she worked in and recommend that if you don't know her to find out about her.

    A little bit about her style.........

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykivlKJQHWE&feature=related
     
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  3. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    well, she was 86 after all.
     
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  5. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    I've never heard of her, but here are some photos:

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    She was a beautiful woman, in her day.
     
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