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Marge Champion
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| Birth name | Marjorie Celeste Belcher |
| Born | September 2, 1919 Los Angeles, California) |
Marge Champion (b. Marjorie Celeste Belcher September 2, 1919, Los Angeles, California) is an American dancer and choreographer.
Marge began dancing when she was very young and she was a ballet teacher at her father's studio when she was 12. As a teenager she was hired at Disney as a dance model for their newest film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They copied her movements to make the character of Snow White look real. She later modelled for the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio and the Dancing Hippo in Fantasia.
She became a legend in Hollywood with her second husband, Gower Champion (June 22, 1921 Geneva, Illinois - August 25, 1980, New York City), as an accomplished dancing team of the 1940s and 1950s during the Golden Age for MGM.
MGM wanted them to redo Astaire and Rogers films, but they refused to do so. They still appeared in many successful films for MGM. Together, they starred in MGM musicals such as the 1951 film version of Show Boat and in Lovely to Look At (1952). They had a son, Gregg, but the marriage ended in divorce.
Her last husband was Boris Sagal, to whom she was married from January 1, 1977, until his death on May 22, 1981. By him she was stepmother to Boris' four children, including actress Katey Sagal.
Since retiring, Marge Champion works as a dance teacher and choreographer in New York City. In 1982, she made a rare television acting appearance on the dramatic series Fame, playing a ballet teacher with a prejudice against African-American dance students. In 2001 she appeared as Emily Whitman in a Broadway revival of Follies.
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