Marge Champion

Marge Champion

Nacimiento : 1919-09-02, Los Angeles, California, USA

Muerte : 2020-10-21

Historia

Marjorie Celeste Champion (née Belcher; born September 2, 1919) was an American dancer and actress.

Perfil

Marge Champion

Películas

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
The Story of the Swimmer
Self
A documentary about the making of the cult film The Swimmer (1968).
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
Herself
If Carol Channing didn't exist, no one could have made her up. One in a billion, Carol , at 89, remains an unstoppable, megawatt dynamo. Broadway diva extraordinaire is just the icing. Carol Channing hovered at the pinnacle of the entertainment world from the late-1950's through the 1960's and beyond, living life sensationally large. As Carol has observed, '...if you're lucky enough to have two hit shows, the world passes through your dressing room'. At 89, she remains irrepressible.
Sing Your Song
Self
Película llevada a Sundance por parte de la HBO. Narra la historia de Harry Belafonte. Activista, cantante y actor norteamericano que ha sido todo un símbolo en la lucha contra la segregación. Trabajó íntimamente con Martin Luther King Jr. por ello, en luchas como el apartheid en Suráfrica, movilizando a celebridades en numerosos actos. Todo un ejemplo de superación.
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: Una historia musical
Herself
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History es el documental más completo hecho hasta ahora sobre las producciones musicales de Hollywood. Shirley Jones, ícono de la televisión y del cine, nos presenta esta celebración llena de canciones y bailes, comenzando por "El Cantor de Jazz" y continuando con "Chicago" y "Dreamgirls".
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Herself
WORDS AND MUSIC is the story of one of Broadway's iconic figures: the composer/lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles. Jerry Herman and an all-star cast, chart his rise from 1950s off-Broadway through all of his smash hits. Featuring never-before-seen footage of original stage performances, and a score full of classic show tunes.
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
I Do! I Do!
Director
Adaptation of the award-winning stage musical. The story takes place entirely in a bedroom dominated by a couple's four poster bed, taking them through fifty years of marriage, through happiness and sorrow, through good times and bad, through childbirth, parenthood, and the eventual sadness from the absence of their children. In the end, they face the future together, while remembering their past.
Ike
Choreographer
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Hollywood, Hollywood
(archive footage)
Segunda parte de "Érase una vez en Hollywood". A diferencia del primer documental, sólo hay dos narradores: Gene Kelly y Fred Astaire. Incluye escenas de comedias y dramas en los que intervienen los hermanos Marx, Laurel y Hardy o Katharine Hepburn.
Como plaga de langosta
Choreographer
Hollywood, finales de los años treinta. Tod Hackett, un joven pintor que intenta abrirse camino como director artístico en el escabroso mundo de la industria cinematográfica, se enamora de su vecina Faye Greener, una aspirante a actriz que prefiere la vida que Homer Simpson, un solitario contable, puede ofrecerle.
Los disparatados vaqueros de Calico County
Mrs. Bester
Debido a una situación muy embarazosa, el herrero Charley ha decidido emigrar; sin embargo, nadie le ayuda porque es el único herrero del pueblo.
El nadador
Peggy Forsburgh
Ned Merrill vive en una zona residencial de clase alta en las afueras de Connecticut. Una día, Ned se da cuenta de que todo el valle donde vive está lleno de piscinas privadas. Ante el asombro de sus amigos, Ned decide recorrer el valle de piscina en piscina hasta llegar a su casa. Por el camino, se encuentra a varias de las mujeres que formaron parte de su vida: una apasionada adolescente a punto de dejar de serlo, una ex amante despechada, la sensual esposa de un viejo amigo...
El guateque
Rosalind Dunphy
Hrundi V. Bakshi es un patoso actor de origen hindú que se encuentra rodadando una película en el desierto. Sus continuas meteduras de pata le llevan a ser despedido del rodaje. Curiosamente recibe la invitación a una fiesta organizada por el productor de su última película. En la fiesta todos parecen felices, pero Hrundi no conoce a nadie y ante tanta sofisticación social, empezarán a sucederse curiosas situaciones.
Three for the Show
Gwen Howard
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.
La amada de Júpiter
Meta
Musical acuático a mayor gloria de Esther Williams. En esta ocasión nos trasladamos a la antigua Roma, donde el conquistador Aníbal se encapricha de la bella Amytis, novia de un noble romano.
Tres chicas con suerte
Madelyn Corlane
Tres productores de Broadway tratan de encontrar a la chica perfecta para su nuevo musical.
Everything I Have Is Yours
Pamela Hubbard
A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.
El amor nació en París
Clarisse
Tres amigos con apuros económicos pretenden producir un musical en Broadway. Afortunadamente, uno de ellos hereda una casa de modas en París, donde acaban montando una espectacular revista de modelos. (FILMAFFINITY
Magnolia
Ellie May Shipley
Tercera versión de Hollywood del "fenómeno Broadway" y de las vidas y amores de unos coloridos personajes a bordo de un barco-teatro en el río Mississippi a principios del siglo XX.
Mr. Music
Marge Champion
Un compositor loco por el golf trata de evitar las largas y solitarias horas de concentración necesarias para producir un éxito musical. Su productor y su secretaria conspiran para volver a encaminarlo.
All Women Have Secrets
Marion
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
What a Life
Student in Doorway at Dance
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
Sorority House
Coed
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
La historia de Irene Castle
Irene's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Vernon Castle, que se gana la vida como actor cómico de segunda fila, conoce en una playa a Irene, quien ve en él grandes aptitudes como bailarín. Ambos se enamoran y poco después se casan. Irene convence a Vernon para formar juntos una pareja de baile. Un malentendido les lleva a París, donde en realidad sólo le querían a él para interpretar un grotesco número cómico de vaudeville. La suerte, sin embargo, les sonríe de inmediato: una empresaria pone sus ojos en ellos y les hace debutar en el Café de París. Vernon e Irene triunfan por todo lo alto en el mundo de la moda. Pero estalla la guerra y Vernon siente la necesidad de alistarse.
Honor of the West
Diane Allen (as Marjorie Bell)
Sheriff Bob Bartlett is called away from the rodeo to apprehend cattle rustlers.
Delinquent Parents
Dancer
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
Keep Dancing
Herself
After celebrated careers , legendary dancers Marge Champion and Donald Saddler became friends while performing together in the Broadway Show Follies (2001) . When the show closed, they decided to rent a private studio together where they have been choreographing and rehearsing original dances ever since. They are both 90 years old. KEEP DANCING seamlessly blends 9 decades of archival film and photographs with present day footage to tell a story through dance of the passing of time and the process of aging.