Cyd Charisse Net Worth
Cyd Charisse Net Worth is
$1.4 Million
Cyd Charisse Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Cyd Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea on March 8, 1921 in Amarillo, Texas. Born to be a dancer, she spent her early childhood taking ballet lessons and joined the Ballet Russe at age 13. In 1939, she married Nico Charisse, her former dance teacher. In 1943, she appeared in her first film, Something to Shout About (1943), billed as Lily Norwood... Date Of Birth | March 8, 1922, Amarillo, Texas, United States |
Died | June 17, 2008, Los Angeles, California, United States |
Place Of Birth | Amarillo, Texas, USA |
Height | 5' 7½" (1.71 m) |
Profession | Actress, Soundtrack |
Spouse | Tony Martin (m. 1948–2008), Nico Charise (m. 1939–1947) |
Children | Tony Martin Jr., Nicholas Charisse |
Star Sign | Pisces |
# | Quote |
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1 | [When Gene Kelly asked what she would like engraved on her gravestone] People sometimes had a problem placing her face, but they never forgot her pins. |
2 | If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing. |
3 | Fred [Astaire] moved like glass. Physically, it was easy to dance with him. It was not as demanding on me. I didn't need the same vitality and strength. |
4 | The censors were always there when I was on the set. When I was held up, in a lift [in Deep in My Heart (1954)], they were up on ladders to see if I was properly covered. |
5 | [on explaining why she never tapped on-screen] I was pulled up as a ballet dancer and I wasn't used to pounding the floor with bent knees. |
6 | [on Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly] Fred could never do the lifts Gene did and never wanted to. I'd say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on the screen. Each has a distinctive style. Each is a joy to work with. But it's like comparing apples and oranges. They're both delicious. |
7 | [on Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly] I can watch Astaire anytime. I don't think he ever made a wrong move. He was a perfectionist. He would work on a few bars for hours until it was just the way he wanted it. Gene was the same way. They both wanted perfection, even though they were completely different personalities. |
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1 | Following her death, she was interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. |
2 | She was an honorary member of the National Federation of Republican Women along with Laraine Day, Rhonda Fleming and Coleen Gray. |
3 | Is one of several, if not only, world renowned prima ballerinas to be featured in a popular hip-hop music video. She had a cameo in "Alright" (1990) by Janet Jackson. |
4 | Although she is interred in a niche at Hillside Memorial Park, a well-known Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles, Charrise was in fact a practicing Methodist. Her funeral was even presided by Dr. Gary Allen Dicky, pastor of the United Methodist Church of Westlake Village. |
5 | Prior to her feature film debut in Something to Shout About (1943) (filmed in 1942), Cyd appeared in at least six Soundies, short musical films played in the popular television-like jukeboxes of that era. Her actual film debut may have most likely been in Escort Girl (1941), (copyrighted 4 November 1941), in which an uncredited dancer looking amazingly like Cyd, does a number, very much in Cyd's unique style, in a café sequence. Just for the record, since this is an exploitation film, the dancer in question is properly attired at all times, and the sequence contains no nudity nor suggests any improper behavior. |
6 | One of the few actresses to have danced with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in the movies, other actresses that have also done this includes Judy Garland, Rita Hayworth, Vera-Ellen, Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Caron. |
7 | She was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in Austin, Texas in March 2002. |
8 | She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1601 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960. |
9 | Her dark looks initially had her cast as ethnic beauties. She was cast as Ricardo Montalban's fiancée in the film Fiesta (1947), and as a Polynesian in the Esther Williams' musical On an Island with You (1948). |
10 | She and husband Tony Martin became a popular song-and-dance couple on television and in nightclubs/cabaret shows after their heyday in film. |
11 | Fred Astaire, in his 1959 memoir "Steps in Time", referred to Cyd as "beautiful dynamite". |
12 | First gained notice with the famed Ballet Russe, becoming a member of the corps de ballet at age 14 and touring the United States and Europe. The company requested that their members use Russian-sounding names so she was billed at different times Natacha Tulaelis, Celia Siderova and Maria Istromena. |
13 | Got her start in Hollywood when Ballet Russe star David Lichine was hired by Columbia for a ballet sequence in the musical film Something to Shout About (1943). Cyd, who was then billed as Lily Norwood, appeared in the scene and attracted attention. Movie offers, including a dancing role opposite Astaire in Ziegfeld Follies (1945), led to a seven-year contract offer by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. |
14 | First started taking lessons at the encouragement of her father, Ernest. She was frail and sickly at the time and had a bout with polio. Dance lessons were encouraged to build up her strength and she took to it quickly. |
15 | Met first husband Nico Charisse, as a very young dancer. She had studied with him for a time in Los Angeles. They married in Paris in 1939 when she was still a teenager. When the Ballet Russe disbanded after World War II broke out, the still newlyweds moved to Hollywood. |
16 | Was 70 years old when she made her Broadway debut in "Grand Hotel". |
17 | Said her husband could tell who she had been dancing with that day on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer set. If she came home covered with bruises on her, it was the very physically-demanding Gene Kelly, if not it was the smooth and agile Fred Astaire. |
18 | Her father, Ernest Enos Finklea, Jr., was a jeweler. Her mother was Lela Norwood Finklea. |
19 | Grew up in the Texas dust-bowl town of Amarillo. Her Baptist jeweler father, a closet balletomane, encouraged her to begin her ballet lessons for health reasons. |
20 | During a family vacation in Los Angeles when she was 12, her parents enrolled her in ballet classes at a school in Hollywood. One of her teachers was Nico Charisse. |
21 | The director of the Ballet Russe dance company, Colonel W. de Basil visited the school and saw her dance. He invited her to join his company, and she toured with it. In 1939, while she was in France on tour with the ballet company, she and Nico Charisse eloped. They had one son, Nico, before their marriage ended in divorce in 1947. |
22 | Unlike many top female dancers in the era of movie musicals, she was trained as a ballerina in the Russian tradition. |
23 | Has two sons: Nicholas Charisse (born May 7, 1942) and Tony Martin Jr. (born August 28, 1950). |
24 | Had appeared with Ricardo Montalban in six films: Fiesta (1947), On an Island with You (1948), The Kissing Bandit (1948), The Mark of the Renegade (1951), Sombrero (1953) and Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976). |
25 | She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 2006 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, D.C. for her services to dance. |
26 | Her daughter-in-law, Sheila Charisse, was killed in the May 25, 1979 crash of American Airlines flight 191 shortly after takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. |
27 | Has one son with her second husband, Tony Martin: Tony Martin Jr. |
28 | Was offered the lead role of Jo Stockton in Funny Face (1957) but declined. The role was eventually played by Audrey Hepburn. |
29 | Lost out on two of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's biggest movie musical roles. She fell and injured her knee during a dance leap on a film which forced her out of the role of Nadina Hale in Easter Parade (1948). Ann Miller replaced her. She also had to relinquish the lead femme role in An American in Paris (1951) due to pregnancy. Leslie Caron took over the role and became a star. |
30 | When casting the film Damn Yankees! (1958), the studio was initially interested in pursuing Cyd as Lola and Cary Grant as Applegate. In the end, Gwen Verdon won the right to recreate her stage role with Ray Walston the devilish Applegate. Cyd was supposedly unavailable but later played the role on the legit stage. |
31 | In Call Her Mom (1972), she was originally to have done the role played by Gloria DeHaven, but was replaced by Ann Miller before DeHaven finally took over the role. |
32 | In 1952, she had a $5-million insurance policy accepted on her legs. |
33 | Was "the other woman" in Marilyn Monroe's last and unfinished film Something's Got to Give (1962). |
34 | Aunt, by marriage, of actress Nana Visitor, Ian Tucker and Zan Charisse. Mother-in-law of Liv Lindeland. |
35 | Although one of the greatest female dancers in the history of the movie musical, her singing in films was almost always dubbed, most notably by Carol Richards in Brigadoon (1954) and a young Vikki Carr in The Silencers (1966). |
36 | Took her name Cyd from a nickname originated from her brother. Initially, he could not say sister and called her Sid. She took the nickname and convinced her agent to keep the name with the present spelling. He feared that Sid was too masculine. |
37 | She danced with the Ballet Russe using the names Maria Istomina and Felia Sidorova. |
Actress
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Empire State Building Murders | 2008 | TV Movie | Vicky Adams |
Frasier | 1995 | TV Series | Polly |
Burke's Law | 1995 | TV Series | Amanda Richardson |
Swimsuit | 1989 | TV Movie | Mrs. Allison |
Crazy Like a Fox | 1986 | TV Series | Barbara Carlisle |
Murder, She Wrote | 1985 | TV Series | Myrna Montclair LeRoy |
Glitter | 1984 | TV Series | |
The Fall Guy | 1984 | TV Series | Diana |
Fantasy Island | 1978-1983 | TV Series | Julie Mars / Queen Delphia |
Portrait of an Escort | 1980 | TV Movie | Sheilah Croft |
The Love Boat | 1979 | TV Series | Eve Mills |
Hawaii Five-O | 1978 | TV Series | Alicia Warren |
Warlords of the Deep | 1978 | Atsil | |
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood | 1976 | President's Girl 4 | |
Medical Center | 1975 | TV Series | Valerie |
Fol-de-Rol | 1972 | TV Movie | Various Characters |
Maroc 7 | 1967 | Louise Henderson | |
The Silencers | 1966 | Sarita | |
Assassination in Rome | 1965 | Shelley North | |
Something's Got to Give | 1962 | Short | Bianca Arden |
Two Weeks in Another Town | 1962 | Carlotta | |
Black Tights | 1961 | The Widow | |
Checkmate | 1961 | TV Series | Janine Caree |
Five Golden Hours | 1961 | Baroness Sandra | |
Party Girl | 1958 | Vicki Gaye | |
Twilight for the Gods | 1958 | Charlotte King | |
Silk Stockings | 1957 | Ninotchka Yoschenko | |
Meet Me in Las Vegas | 1956 | Maria Corvier | |
It's Always Fair Weather | 1955 | Jackie Leighton | |
Deep in My Heart | 1954 | Cyd Charisse | |
Brigadoon | 1954 | Fiona Campbell | |
Easy to Love | 1953 | Girl in blue swimsuit - Cameo appearance (uncredited) | |
The Band Wagon | 1953 | Gabrielle Gerard | |
Sombrero | 1953 | Lola de Torrano | |
Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Dancer | |
The Wild North | 1952 | Indian Girl | |
The Mark of the Renegade | 1951 | Manuella de Vasquez | |
East Side, West Side | 1949 | Rosa Senta | |
Tension | 1949 | Mary Chanler | |
Words and Music | 1948 | Margo Grant | |
The Kissing Bandit | 1948 | Dancer | |
On an Island with You | 1948 | Yvonne Torro | |
The Unfinished Dance | 1947 | Mlle. Ariane Bouchet | |
Fiesta | 1947 | Conchita | |
Till the Clouds Roll By | 1946 | Dance Specialty (segment 'Roberta') | |
Three Wise Fools | 1946 | Rena Fairchild | |
The Harvey Girls | 1946 | Deborah Andrews | |
Ziegfeld Follies | 1945 | Ballerina ('Beauty') | |
This Love of Mine | 1944 | Short | Dancer (uncredited) |
In Our Time | 1944 | Ballerina (uncredited) | |
Thousands Cheer | 1943 | Dancer in Don Loper Number (uncredited) | |
Mission to Moscow | 1943 | Galina Ulanova - Ballerina (uncredited) | |
Something to Shout About | 1943 | Lily (as Lily Norwood) | |
The Gay Parisian | 1941 | Short | Dancer (uncredited) |
Escort Girl | 1941 | Flamenco Dancer (uncredited) |
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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That's Entertainment! III | 1994 | Documentary performer: "Baby, You Knock Me Out" 1955, "The Heather on the Hill" 1947, "Two-Faced Woman" 1953, "Dance of Fury" 1948, "The Girl Hunt" 1952 - uncredited | |
That's Dancing! | 1985 | Documentary performer: "Red Blues" | |
That's Entertainment, Part II | 1976 | Documentary performer: "All of You" 1955, "Broadway Rhythm" 1935 - uncredited | |
That's Entertainment! | 1974 | performer: "Dancing in the Dark" 1931 - uncredited | |
The Silencers | 1966 | performer: "The Silencers", "Santiago" | |
The Hollywood Palace | 1965 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Silk Stockings | 1957 | performer: "Paris Loves Lovers", "It's a Chemical Reaction that's all", "All of You", "Without Love", "Fated to Be Mated", "Red Blues" - uncredited | |
Meet Me in Las Vegas | 1956 | performer: "Rehearsal Ballet", "Sleeping Beauty Ballet" excerpt, "Frankie and Johnny", "The Gal with the Yaller Shoes", "My Lucky Charm" | |
MGM Parade | 1955 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
It's Always Fair Weather | 1955 | performer: "Baby, You Knock Me Out" 1955 - uncredited | |
Deep in My Heart | 1954 | performer: "One Alone" | |
Brigadoon | 1954 | performer: "Waiting for My Dearie", "The Heather on the Hill", "The Heather on the Hill" reprise - uncredited | |
The Band Wagon | 1953 | "That's Entertainment" 1953, uncredited / performer: "The Beggars Waltz" 1931, "Dancing in the Dark" 1931, "You and the Night and the Music" 1934, "New Sun in the Sky" 1931, "The Girl Hunt" 1953 - uncredited | |
Words and Music | 1948 | performer: "This Can't Be Love", "On Your Toes", "Blue Room" | |
The Kissing Bandit | 1948 | performer: "Dance of Fury" | |
On an Island with You | 1948 | performer: "The Pagan Mask" - uncredited | |
Till the Clouds Roll By | 1946 | performer: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" - uncredited | |
The Harvey Girls | 1946 | performer: "It's a Great Big World", "Swing Your Partner Round and Round" - uncredited | |
Ziegfeld Follies | 1945 | performer: "Here's to the Girls", "There's Beauty Ev'rywhere" |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' | 2002 | Video documentary short thanks |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Get Aboard! The Band Wagon | 2005 | Video documentary short | Herself |
That's Entertainment!: The Masters Behind the Musicals | 2004 | Video documentary short | Herself |
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Larry King Live | 2003 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
Satin and Silk | 2003 | Video short | Herself / On Camera Host |
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' | 2002 | Video documentary short | Herself |
American Masters | 1990-2002 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration | 2001 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Biography | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Janet Jackson: Design of a Decade 1986/1996 | 1996 | Video documentary | Herself (segment "Alright") |
Great Performances | 1996 | TV Series | Herself |
Intimate Portrait | 1996 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Inside the Dream Factory | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
The Annual American Friends Hebrew University Scopus Awards Honoring Ted Turner | 1995 | TV Special | Herself |
That's Entertainment III: Behind the Screen | 1994 | Video documentary | Herself |
That's Entertainment! III | 1994 | Documentary | Herself - Co-Host / Narrator |
Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration | 1994 | TV Movie | Herself |
The 5th Annual Legacy Awards | 1993 | TV Special | Herself |
This Is Your Life | 1993 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1992 | TV Special | Herself |
Cinema 3 | 1992 | TV Series | Herself |
MGM: When the Lion Roars | 1992 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
Janet Jackson: The Rhythm Nation Compilation | 1990 | Video | Herself (segment "Alright") |
The 35th Annual Thalians Gala | 1990 | TV Movie | Herself |
Zapper n'est pas jouer | 1990 | TV Series | Herself |
America's Dance Honors | 1990 | TV Special | Herself |
Cinéma cinémas | 1990 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Un dia és un dia | 1990 | TV Series | Herself |
Cyd Charisse: Easy Energy Shape-Up | 1990 | Video | Herself |
Visioni private | 1989 | Herself | |
The 61st Annual Academy Awards | 1989 | TV Special | Herself - Performer |
America's All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor | 1989 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
Lerner and Loewe: Broadway's Last Romantics | 1988 | TV Movie | Herself |
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood | 1987 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
The Annual Friars Club Tribute Present a Salute to Liza Minnelli | 1987 | TV Movie | Herself |
Looks Familiar | 1986 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
The 58th Annual Academy Awards | 1986 | TV Special | Herself - Performer |
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan | 1985 | TV Special | Herself |
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Gene Kelly | 1985 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1982 | TV Special | Herself |
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Fred Astaire | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Milton Berle | 1980 | TV Movie | Herself |
The 50th Annual Academy Awards | 1978 | TV Special | Herself - Performer: Best Costume Design Award |
Gene Kelly: An American in Pasadena | 1978 | TV Special | Herself |
Over Easy | 1977 | TV Series | Herself |
Wednesday at 8 | 1977 | TV Series | Herself |
The Hollywood Squares | 1977 | TV Series | Guest Appearance |
Donny and Marie | 1977 | TV Series | Herself |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1975-1976 | TV Series | Herself - Dancer / Actress |
Dinah! | 1975 | TV Series | Herself |
ABC Late Night | 1974 | TV Series | Herself |
Film Portrait | 1972 | Documentary | Herself |
The Bob Hope Show | 1968-1969 | TV Series | Herself |
The Dean Martin Show | 1967-1968 | TV Series | Herself |
The Danny Thomas Hour | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
The Hollywood Palace | 1964-1967 | TV Series | Herself - Hostess / Herself - Dancer / Herself - Sketch Actor / ... |
The Dean Martin Summer Show | 1966 | TV Series | Herself |
The 38th Annual Academy Awards | 1966 | TV Special | Specialty dancer |
The Linkletter Show | 1964 | TV Series | Herself |
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
The 34th Annual Academy Awards | 1962 | TV Special | Herself - Co-Presenter: Music Awards |
The Ed Sullivan Show | 1954-1962 | TV Series | Herself - Dancer / Herself |
Here's Hollywood | 1961 | TV Series | Herself |
The 33rd Annual Academy Awards | 1961 | TV Special | Herself - Co-Presenter: Cinematography Awards |
Startime | 1959 | TV Series | Herself |
The 31st Annual Academy Awards | 1959 | TV Special | Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film |
The All-Star Christmas Show | 1958 | TV Movie | Herself |
The 30th Annual Academy Awards | 1958 | TV Special | Herself - Co-Presenter: Documentary Awards |
Person to Person | 1956 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends | 1956 | TV Series | Herself |
What's My Line? | 1956 | TV Series | Herself - Mystery Guest |
Texaco Star Theatre | 1956 | TV Series | Herself - Dancer |
1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration | 1955 | Short documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
MGM Parade | 1955 | TV Series | Herself |
The 27th Annual Academy Awards | 1955 | TV Special | Herself - Audience Member |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Imprescindibles | 2011 | TV Series | Herself |
Michael Feinstein's American Songbook | 2010 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
Let's Dance | 2009/II | Documentary | Herself |
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
The 81st Annual Academy Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Herself - Memorial Tribute |
The Orange British Academy Film Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Herself - Memorial Tribute |
15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Herself - Memorial Tribute |
The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards | 2008 | TV Special | Herself - In Memoriam |
Tough Baby: Torch Song | 2008 | Video documentary short | Herself |
A Life in Words and Music | 2007 | Video short | Margo Grant |
Hollywood Remembers | 2000 | TV Series documentary | |
Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' | 1997 | TV Short documentary | Fiona Campbell in 'Brigadoon' |
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Gabrielle Gerard, 'The Band Wagon' (uncredited) |
The 65th Annual Academy Awards | 1993 | TV Special | Herself |
Rock Hudson's Home Movies | 1992 | Documentary | Charlotte King |
Nylon blues | 1991 | Documentary | |
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Biography | 1987 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
That's Entertainment, Part II | 1976 | Documentary | Clip from 'Silk Stockings' |
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television | 1975 | TV Special | Herself |
That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Clip from 'Singin' in the Rain' | |
Marilyn | 1963 | Documentary | Herself (scene from "Something's Got to Give") (uncredited) |
MGM Parade | 1955-1956 | TV Series | Dancer / Herself |
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1991 | Desert Palm Achievement Award | Palm Springs International Film Festival | ||
1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 1601 Vine Street. |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1958 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Actress - Comedy or Musical | Silk Stockings (1957) |
2nd Place Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1958 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Female Musical Performance | Silk Stockings (1957) |