Word: ballerina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company-some of them partly to satisfy the union. But he had 21 new dancers, picked more for their ability to "look and move well on the stage" than for their technique ("I can always teach them to dance"). For top polish, he had brought along Texas-born Ballerina Nana Gollner from Ballet Theatre...
...them: Dancer-Actress Tamara Geva, who became his first wife; Ballerina Alexandra Danilova, who became his second. Subsequent wives: Berlin-born Dancer Vera Zorina, from whom he was divorced in 1946, Oklahoma-born Ballerina Maria Tallchief, part Osage Indian, from whom he separated last month...
...British Ballerina Moira (Red Shoes) Shearer, who after listening to a frantic chorus, asked Muggsy: "Tell me, do you find ballet dull...
...little into the cafe; he remembered particularly one regular customer, a "beautiful woman," of whom he could seldom see more than a white arm and shoulder. Another idea in Petit's head came from watching a performance of South Pacific with his Carmen, tiny, bob-haired Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire. He had come out impressed with the gaiety of U.S. musicomedy; she had come out sighing, "I would like to sing like Mary Martin." Somehow, Petit wanted to put a bit of all of those ideas together and produce a ballet with songs...
...childhood into a jewel thief who steals diamonds "not to wear or sell, but to eat, like children crunch candy." The first the audience saw of her was a slim white arm and shoulder, snaking out through a hole in the wall to lift the wallets of passersby. When Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire finally turned up in full view (in sexy black tights) to sing & dance her bit ("I'm a cruncher of diamonds, I can't do without this vitamin . . ."), she brought the house down...