Name
Cyd Charisse
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1922-03-08
Deathday
2008-06-16 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Amarillo, Texas, USA
Biography
Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American dancer and actress. After recovering from polio as a child and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s. Her roles usually featured her abilities as a dancer, and she was paired with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly; her films include Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), Brigadoon (1954), and Silk Stockings (1957). She stopped dancing in films in the late 1950s, but continued acting in film and television, and in 1992 made her Broadway debut.
Known For
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In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid ...
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Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's ...
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Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous...
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Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Rev...
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A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop....
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Celebrating the 30 year anniversary of Michael Jackson's solo career, this legendary perfo...
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Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not un...
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Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to expl...
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Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson...
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After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet com...
- 1952 Singin' in the Rain as Dancer
- 1978 Warlords of Atlantis as Atsil
- 1966 The Silencers as Sarita
- 1958 Party Girl as Vicki Gaye
- 1949 Tension as Mary Chanler
- 1953 The Band Wagon as Gabrielle Gerard
- 1976 Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood as President's Girl 4
- 1957 Silk Stockings as Ninotchka Yoschenko
- 1948 On an Island with You as Yvonne Torro
- 1943 Thousands Cheer as Dancer (uncredited)
- 1962 Two Weeks in Another Town as Carlotta
- 1947 Fiesta as Conchita
- 1952 The Wild North as Indian girl
- 1955 It's Always Fair Weather as Jackie Leighton
- 1946 Till the Clouds Roll By as Dance Specialty
- 1954 Brigadoon as Fiona Campbell
- 2008 Empire State Building Murders as Vicky Adams
- 1961 Five Golden Hours as Baroness Sandra
- 1994 That's Entertainment! III as Self - Co-Host / Narrator
- 1958 Twilight for the Gods as Charlotte King
- 1947 The Unfinished Dance as Mlle. Ariane Bouchet
- 1949 East Side, West Side as Rosa Senta
- 1943 Something to Shout About as Lily
- 1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas as Maria Corvier
- 1972 Fol-de-Rol as Various Characters
- 1948 The Kissing Bandit as Dancer
- 2001 Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- 1967 Maroc 7 as Louise Henderson
- 1953 Sombrero as Lola de Torrano
- 1941 Rhumba Serenade
- 1961 Black Tights as The Widow
- 1951 The Mark of the Renegade as Manuella de Vasquez
- 1948 Words and Music as Margo Grant
- 1942 This Love of Mine as Dancer (uncredited)
- 2001 Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days as Self
- 1990 You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story as Self
- 1990 Dance Crazy in Hollywood as Various Roles (archive footage)
- 1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon' as Self
- 1946 The Harvey Girls as Deborah Andrews
- 2003 Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk as Self - Hostess
- 1974 That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2006 It's Always Fair Weather: Going Out on a High Note as Self (Archive Footage)
- 1989 Swimsuit as Mrs. Allison
- 1941 Escort Girl as Flamenco Dancer (uncredited)
- 1980 Portrait of an Escort as Sheilah Croft
- 1954 Deep in My Heart as Performer (segment "The Desert Song")
- 2002 Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer as Self
- 1942 The Gay Parisian as Dancer (uncredited)
- 1944 In Our Time as Ballerina (uncredited)
- 1946 Three Wise Fools as Rena Fairchild
- 1943 Mission to Moscow as Galina Ulanova - Ballerina (uncredited)
- 1945 Ziegfeld Follies as Ballerina (segment "Beauty")
- 2002 What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' as Self
- 1966 Christmas with Crosby & Kate as Herself
- 1976 That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- 1991 Nylon Blues: A History of the Nylon Stocking as (archive footage)
- 1985 That's Dancing!
- 1965 Assassination in Rome as Shelley North
- 1995 Inside the Dream Factory as Self
- 1953 Easy to Love as Model (uncredited)
- 2004 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies as Self
- 1987 Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
- 1958 The All-Star Christmas Show as Self
- 1963 Marilyn as archive footage
- 2017 The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (archive)
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Myrna Montclair
- 1977 The Love Boat ( 1 episode ) as Eve Mills
- 1968 Hawaii Five-O ( 1 episode ) as Alicia Warren
- 1993 Frasier ( 1 episode ) as Polly (voice)
- 1976 Donny & Marie ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1969 Medical Center ( 1 episode )
- 1984 Crazy like a Fox ( 1 episode ) as Barbara Carlisle
- 1984 Glitter ( 1 episode ) as Ethel Woodley
- 1964 The Hollywood Palace ( 1 episode ) as Self - Dancer
- 1956 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1953 The Oscars ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1955 MGM Parade ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1973 The American Film Institute Salute to ... ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1994 Burke's Law ( 1 episode ) as Amanda Richardson
- 1950 What's My Line? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1955 MGM Parade ( 1 episode )
- 1997 HARDtalk ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Startime ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1971 Film '72 ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1978 Fantasy Island ( 1 episode ) as Queen Delphia
