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Interview with Marge Champion

Title
Interview with Marge Champion [videorecording] / [Presented by] The League of Professional Theatre Women ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Publication
New York, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Champion, Marge
  • Jones, Tom, 1928-
  • Reiner, Rachel
  • Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946-
  • Corwin, Betty L
  • Hoffman, Patrick.
  • League of Professional Theatre Women.
  • Character Generators/Video.
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (73 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Veteran dancer Marge Champion discusses her career on stage and screen with lyricist/librettist Tom Jones. She traces her dance career back to her father Ernest Belcher, who managed a dance studio and worked as a choreographer for movies in Hollywood. She describes working as a model for Snow White and other animated characters at the Walt Disney Studio. She speaks of her marriage to dancer/choregrapher Gower Champion, their work together in films at MGM in the 1950s, their television show, and his subsequent career as director of Broadway musicals such as Bye bye Birdie and Hello, Dolly! She also discusses the personal difficulties and family tragedies of her later years and how she has managed to cope.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Interviews.
Note
  • Copy of program available.
Access (note)
  • Restricted to qualified researchers.
Performer (note)
  • Opening remarks: Rachel Reiner, Jacqueline Z. Davis, Betty L. Corwin.
  • Interviewed by Tom Jones.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., March 15, 2010.
Call Number
NCOW 341
OCLC
647323760
Title
Interview with Marge Champion [videorecording] / [Presented by] The League of Professional Theatre Women ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Imprint
New York, c2010.
Access
Restricted to qualified researchers.
Cast
Opening remarks: Rachel Reiner, Jacqueline Z. Davis, Betty L. Corwin.
Interviewed by Tom Jones.
Event
Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., March 15, 2010.
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Added Author
League of Professional Theatre Women.
Champion, Marge, interviewee.
Jones, Tom, 1928- interviewer.
Reiner, Rachel, speaker.
Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946- speaker.
Corwin, Betty L, speaker.
Character Generators/Video.
Hoffman, Patrick.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Research Call Number
NCOW 341
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