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Marge Champion

Highest Rated: 100% The Swimmer (1968)

Lowest Rated: 83% The Party (1968)

Birthday: Sep 2, 1919

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

A celebrated dancer, actress, and choreographer of stage, screen and TV, Marge Champion, together with her then-husband and partner Gower Champion, excelled at the "story dance," a combination of dance and pantomime, which they performed to great renown on Broadway, in several films, and on such TV programs as "The Broadway Admiral Revue" (NBC, 1949). Champion was the daughter of Ernest Belcher, a ballet coach for Hollywood stars. In 1936, she performed with the Los Angeles Civic Opera in several productions, often before as many as 23,000 people. Soon thereafter, she was a human figure model for the heroine of Disney's animated "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), and later modeled for the blue fairy in "Pinocchio" (1940). Then known as Marjorie Bell, she also made her film debut in "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (1939), although it was Ginger Rogers who danced with Fred Astaire.

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Highest rated movies

100% 82% The Swimmer
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95% 79% Sing Your Song
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83% 88% The Party
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83% 70% Show Boat
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33% Lovely to Look At
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Everything I Have Is Yours
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61% Give a Girl a Break
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44% Three for the Show
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56% Jupiter's Darling
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43% Mr. Music
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
95% 79% Sing Your Song Unknown (Character) $47.7K 2011
No Score Yet 55% The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County Mrs. Bester (Character) - 1970
83% 88% The Party Rosalind Dunphy (Character) - 1968
100% 82% The Swimmer Peggy Forsburgh (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 56% Jupiter's Darling Meta (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 44% Three for the Show Gwen Howard (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 61% Give a Girl a Break Madelyn Corlane (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Everything I Have Is Yours Pamela Hubbard (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 33% Lovely to Look At Clarisse (Character) - 1952
83% 70% Show Boat Ellie May Shipley (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 43% Mr. Music Self - 1950

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Fame Unknown (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Screen Directors Playhouse Unknown (Character) 1956