Recently Dead

Cyd Charisse, the leggy Texas hottie who danced in the MGM Technicolor musicals of the '40s and '50s, died today after being admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following an apparent heart attack yesterday. She was 86. During her career, the classically trained dancer partnered with Fred Astaire in The Band Wagon and Silk Stockings and with Gene Kelly in Brigadoon, It's Always Fair Weather, and – most famously – Singin' in the Rain, in which she delighted audiences by performing with a 25-foot-long Chinese silk scarf that she kept afloat throughout the dance sequence via wind machine. In 1983, Astaire said of her, "When we were dancing, we didn't know what time it was." (Source)

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