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Vera Zorina

Norwegian ballerina (1917-2003)

Born 1917 · BerlinDied 2003NorwayUnited States
Vera Zorina
Image: Cine Mundial · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Vera Zorina was a Norwegian choreographer, ballet dancer and dancer, born in 1917 in Berlin, who died in 2003.

Biography

Eva Brigitta Hartwig (January 2, 1917 – April 9, 2003), known professionally as Vera Zorina, was a German-Norwegian ballerina, theatre and film actress, and choreographer, chiefly remembered for her films choreographed by her husband George Balanchine. They include the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue sequence from On Your Toes, The Goldwyn Follies, I Was an Adventuress with Erich Von Stroheim and Peter Lorre, Louisiana Purchase with Bob Hope, and dancing to "That Old Black Magic" in Paramount Pictures' Star Spangled Rhythm.

From the Wikipedia article “Vera Zorina”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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