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Cyd Charisse: Dancing
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Arctic Spray was created over 15 years ago when talented actress and dancer Cyd Charisse was in search of a way to relieve her mother’s painful arthritis. Cyd experimented with every product on the market – Icy Hot, Flex All, Mineral
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In 1962 Cyd suffered two strokes of bad luck. She played the new wife in "Something's Got To Give", a film that was famously abandoned because of Marilyn Monroe's absences. (One aspect of this fiasco is never discussed. As is shown by the footage now available on DVD, Cyd was so good looking that it was essential to have Marilyn Monroe play the woman who distracts Dean Martin from the wife he has just married. Dean Martin was entirely sensible to refuse to make the film without Marilyn Monroe opposite Cyd Charisse.)
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After her screen career waned in the early 1960s, Charisse and her second husband, Tony Martin, appeared together on the nightclub circuit. She ... has starred in musical stage productions that draw on nostalgia for the era with which she was such an integral part.
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As a contract player with MGM, Cyd was merely one of a large stable of highly skilled dancers, very few of whom ever became stars. Cyd was kept on the sidelines for years, supporting stars like Esther Williams and Kathryn Grayson, and doing small, not very noticeable dance routines in a variety of films. In "Till The Clouds Roll By", she had a few seconds of screen time, dancing with Gower Champion to "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes". In "Words And Music" Cyd had rather more screen time as Perry Como's female companion. She danced a few solo steps to "The Blue Room" while he serenaded her, and then, together with Dee Turnell, she danced in an extended but uninteresting routine to a medley of "On Your Toes", "This Can't Be Love" and "The Boyfriend".
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When Cyd finally goes back home, she lets her mom know about all the stuff that has happened in her past that Nancy knew nothing about. Cyd Charisse doing this has made her and her mother a lot closer. Cyd changed a lot when she went to stay with her father, but all in a good way. Her and Shrimp eventually made up and they are back together now.
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Cyd was born on March 8, 1921. Her name was registered in the record of births book as Tula Ellice Finklea. Now you know why her Hollywood agent changed her name when she made her decision to enter Hollywood.
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