Marge Champion

Marge Champion, ne Marjorie Celeste Belcher , is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. At a young age she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later she performed as an actress and dancer in film musicals, and in 1957 had a TV show based on song and dance. She has also done creative choreography for liturgy, and served as a dialogue and movement coach for the 1978 TV miniseries, The Awakening Land, set in the late 18th century in the Ohio Valley.

Champion was born Marjorie Celeste Belcher in 1919 in Los Angeles, California, to Hollywood dance director Ernest Belcher and his wife, Gladys Lee Baskette . She had an older half sister, Lina Basquette, who already was acting in silent films at the age of twelve. She was the daughter of her mothers first husband, Frank Baskette, who had committed suicide.

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