| re: My other favorite female dancer, Vera-Ellen | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 06:26 pm EST 01/18/25 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 06:13 pm EST 01/18/25 | |
| In reply to: re: My other favorite female dancer, Vera-Ellen - sfow1 01:42 pm EST 01/18/25 | |
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| If you google "Vera-Ellen neck", under photos you'll find plenty of photos with her neck uncovered. It's possible in later years there might have been some premature aging. I read a bio of Vera-Ellen recently, the only one I could find from about 25 years ago; the author is a big fan, and while he does go into plenty of detail about her movie dances, her stage career and upbringing, he diagnoses a bit too much for a non-physician into possible anorexia in some of the later chapters. She did have lots of pressure from MGM to lose weight, which is amazing on their part for someone who exercised a tremendous amount to dance so superbly; supposedly they didn't like that her calves and that other parts of her legs were so muscular. So in addition to her mother's very bizarre notions of what constituted a healthy diet, MGM's prodding and her own perfectionism with regard to her dancing, as well as the decline in movie musicals in the late 1950s, her life thereafter had a sad decline, perhaps most precipitously starting with her losing her baby daughter at several months old to sudden infant death syndrome, which led to her divorce from a Rothschild and then to withdrawal from most social life besides a few friends and relatives. She still kept up dance class daily as therapy in her later years, but still died quite prematurely at age 60 from cancer. But I prefer to focus on the great joy of dancing she radiated and incredible skill in her films which are still there to enjoy. |
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