Marge Champion . Born on 02 September as 1919 in Los Angeles , California , USA . He died on 21 Octubre as 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA
It served as a model to draw the protagonist of Walt Disney’s ” Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” , and later triumphed in Broadway musicals . Marge Champion passed away on October 21, 2020, at the age of 101 , in Los Angeles.
Biography
Born on September 2, 1919 on Orange Drive , in Hollywood , Marjorie Celeste Belcher – her maiden name – was the daughter of Ernest Belcher , founder of the School of Celeste Dance , where she taught great stars like Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse to dance. , and that he was also in the service of the director Cecil B. De Mille . The girl’s older half-sister, Lina Basquette , was successful as an actress in the silent film era. Under the supervision of his father, he began dancing at a very young age.
Artistic career
When she was 11 she made her debut at the Hollywood Bowl, in the ballet “Carnival in Venice.” After graduating from Hollywood High, she was hired by Walt Disney , a friend of her father , so that his animators would copy her movements, in order to achieve greater realism with the animated figure of Snow White. “I went one , two or three days every month, ” he recalled in an interview. “I filmed with a camera of sixteen millimeters.
They had accessories, for example, if Snow White had to lie on a bed they had brought me one. What I could do in a day’s work , he kept them busy for a couple of weeks. “Felt very honored to have been part of this project.” I had been given the opportunity to be part of the history of animation ” He would return to work for the company, also serving as a model for Pinocchio’s Blue Fairy , Mr. Stork, in Dumbo , and one of the animals in the segment “The Dance of the Hours”, from Fantasia .
In 1937 she married one of the studio’s most prestigious animators, Art Babbitt, creator of Goofy , but they divorced three years later. “I wanted children and for me to stay home , but I thought I had practiced a lot and had to keep trying my luck as a dancer.” Later she was united with fellow dancer Gower Champion , from whom Marge Champion took the stage name. With him he appeared in numerous Broadway shows, and in MGM musicals of the 40s and 50s, such as Magnolia ( 1951 ), Three for the Show , or The beloved of Jupiter . In 1957, starred in a television series , The Marge and Gower Champion Show , a sitcom with songs and dances, where Marge played a dancer and Gower a choreographer.
Marge Champion also appears as a secondary in the successful feature films El guateque and El nadador . Also separated from Champion, she began a relationship with the director Boris Sagal ( The Last Man … Alive ), from 1977 until his death in an accident in 1981 .
At the end of her career, she played a ballet teacher in an episode of Fame in 1982 and appeared as the mature star of the musical Emily Whitman in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies” in 2001 .
