Gwen VerdonAKA:
Gwenyth Evelyn Verdon
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
01/13/1925 Birthplace:
Culver City, California Death Date:
10/18/2000 Celeb News
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biography
Petite, saucy redheaded star of Broadway musicals during their golden age in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. A child tap dancer and daughter of a Hollywood studio gaffer, Verdon took a stab at a variety of careers--from dance instruction to reviewing the nightclub scene for The Hollywood Reporter where she first saw the legendary jazz choreographer Jack Cole's work in the late 1940s. She worked both as his assistant choreographer and principal dancer before making her adult film debut in a small part in the "Popo the Puppet" number with Danny Kaye in "On the Riviera", followed by a bit as a slave girl
Credits
milestones
Year
Milestone
Began appearing with mother in a dance act at age four
By age six billed as "The Fastest Tapper in the World" and performed at Loew's State Theater on Broadway
1940
Musical comedy debut as a dancer in Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Company revival of "Show Boat"
1943
Film debut in "Presenting Lily Mars"
Wrote nightclub reviews for the Hollywood Reporter in the mid-1940s
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