Word: fortunia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Education for the Dance. Reminisced Fortunia in her best throaty pidgin: "At school I learn only classic ballet, but one month with Chicago black boys I learn beaucoup tricks, much swing, rumba. They teach me so good I have enough to dance at Folies...
...spotlight caught the show's two star nudes: blonde Parisienne Nicole Roy, café-au-lait Haitian Fortunia...
Beauteous 18-year-old Fortunia burned up the stage in a sizzle of tropical dancing. Daughter of a Haitian father and a blonde Polish mother, Fortunia was brought up in Poland, thrown into a Nazi concentration camp during the war, liberated by Negro G.I.s...
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