Cyd Charisse

[milagros317]

photo attached

[sole seeker]

Damn fine!

[TKLMAN]

Old-school sexy ... love it! Thanks , milagros.

[tickleterror]

Not sure who she is but she is very sexy.

[milagros317]

She was a movie star and dancer, before your time. :D
I remember her from the late 1950's in such films as "Silk Stockings" and "Party Girl," but her film career actually began in 1943.



Cyd Charisse was born to be a dancer. She spent her early childhood taking ballet lessons and joined the Ballet Russe at 13. In 1939 she married Nico Charise, her ex-dance teacher. In 1943 she appeared in her first film, Something to Shout About (1943), billed as Lily Norwood. The same year she played a Russian dancer in Mission to Moscow (1943), directed by Michael Curtiz. In 1945 she was hired to dance with Fred Astaire in Ziegfeld Follies (1946), and that uncredited appearance got her a seven-year contract with MGM. She appeared in a number of musicals over the next few years, but it was Singin' in the Rain (1952) with Gene Kelly that made her a star. That was quickly followed by her great performance in The Band Wagon (1953). As the 1960s dawned, musicals faded from the screen, as did her career. She made appearances on television and performed in a nightclub revue with her second husband, singer Tony Martin.

[tickleterror]

Thanks for the info Mils, and for the original pic.

[rajee]

Great find Milagros. :smilestar