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Champion, Marge

LC control no.n 94120346
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Personal name headingChampion, Marge
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Variant(s)Belcher, Marjorie
Champion, Marjorie Celeste
Sagal, Marge Champion
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1919-09-02
Death date2020-10-21
Place of birthLos Angeles (Calif.)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activityDance Choreography Motion picture acting
Profession or occupationDancers Choreographers Motion picture actors and actresses
Special notePseudonym not found on published works: Marjorie Bell.
Found inLovely to look at, 195-?: label (Marge Champion)
Contemp. theatre, film, and television: v. 1 (Champion, Marge; b. Marjorie Belcher, Sept. 2, 1919, Hollywood, CA; actress, choreographer, dancer, director)
Variety's ww in show business, 1989 (Champion, Marge (nee Belcher); b. Sept. 2, 1923, Los Angeles; dancer, choreographer)
Ww in entertainment, 2nd ed. (Champion, Marge (Marjorie Celeste Champion); b. Sept. 2, 1923, Los Angeles; actress, dancer)
Katz, E. Film enc., 3rd ed. (Champion, Marge; b. Marjorie Celeste Belcher, Sept. 2, 1921, Hollywood, Calif.; dancer, actress)
Int. motion picture almanac, 71st ed. (Champion, Marge; real name, Marjorie Celeste Belcher; b. Sept. 2, 1921, Los Angeles, CA; dancer, actress, choreographer)
Perf. arts biog. master index (Champion, Marge; 1919- ; 1921- ; 1923- ; 1925- )
IMDb, July 29, 2005 (Marge Champion; b. Sept. 2, 1919, Los Angeles, Calif.; sometimes credited as Marjorie Bell, Marge Champion Sagal; birth name: Marjorie Celeste Belcher)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Oct. 22, 2020 (in obituary dated Oct. 22, 2020: Marge Champion, a dancer who gave life to Snow White as a live-action model for Disney's 1937 animated film, and who later hoofed across the screen with Gower Champion in a reigning husband-and-wife duo at the heyday of Hollywood musicals and the dawn of television, died Oct. 21 in Los Angeles. She was 101. Marjorie Celeste Belcher was born in Los Angeles on Sept. 2, 1919. She began her professional career as Marjorie Bell. "They thought Bell would look better on a marquee than Belcher," she told the Boston Globe)
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