Gilda Gray was an American actress and dancer who popularizing a dance called the shimmy which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions.
Gilda Gray was born as Marianna Michalska in Krakw onOctober 1901, to Max and Wanda Michalski, who emigrated to the United States in 1909 and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She had one sibling, Josephine.
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