An Evening with MARGE CHAMPION

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 12:35pm

TOMORROW NIGHT - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28 at Film Forum!!! 8 pm!

Born and raised in Hollywood, Marge Champion began life as Marjorie Belcher, daughter of Ernest Belcher, ballet master to the stars (her half-sister, Lina Basquette, was a Ziegfeld and DeMille star). A dancer from a young age, Marge was chosen at age 14 to be the model for Disney’s Snow White (and later Pinocchio’s Blue Fairy and Fantasia’s dancing hippos) and appeared in her first liveaction film at 18. Teamed in 1947 with her future husband, dancer-choreographer-director Gower Champion, she soon co-starred with him in a series of cheerful musicals (including "Show Boat", "Everything I Have Is Yours", "Lovely to Look At", "Give A Girl a Break", "Three For The Show" etc.) that made them the most popular movie dance team since Astaire & Rogers.

Ms. Champion, a 2004 inductee into the National Dance Hall of Fame at Saratoga, will be joined by Rex Reed, Bruce Goldstein, and her longtime friend, Broadway dancer/teacher Sondra Lee, to reminisce about her long stage, movie and tv career, an evening augmented by some exuberant film clips.

I'll be there!

Film Forum

Updated On: 2/27/05 at 12:35 PM

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 12:37pm

Congrats on getting to attend what should be a magnificent evening!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 12:40pm

Let us know if she says anything about Elaine Stritch. Stritch was less than flattering to Champion in "Elaine Stritch At Liberty"

[lovebwy]

Posted: 7/7/15 at 2:27pm

I'm working on a project involving Marge Champion and I was wondering the same thing. Does anyone know if she ever responded to Elaine Stritch's characterization of her in At Liberty?

From what I can see Marge is a down to earth, funny, smart and kind person. Stritch was... some of those things!