The 24th Annual Academy Awards held in March of 1952. The big winner for Best Picture that year (1951) was An American in Paris. A Streetcar Named Desire won three out of the four acting categories, losing only the Best Actor category to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. Attending the ceremony were some of the biggest couples of the day including Mr and Mrs James Stewart shown here:
But who's this? Who could this Mystery Couple be? Marilyn?
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The girl looks like a Meadows. The guy looks like he had a plane ticket in his pocket for Rome and a pair of sandals in his grip.
It looks like a very young Kevin McCarthy?
Nope, not Meadows and not McCarthy. The reason I called out Marilyn is because of her training in dance, her love of dance, her dance blogathon and so on down the dance related line. The better half modeled for Disney on many occasions.
So in other words, they're dancers.
Can I answer instead of Marilyn? Marge and Gower Champion!
WendyMoon - Yes indeed! You can and did and your answer was correct. It was Marge and Gower Champion. That photo I have is public domain and I noticed the Wikipedia article I linked to has no photo. Maybe I could provide mine and be a hero! Or not.
They always introduced themselves at parties by walking in singing Queen's "We Are the Champions."
Somehow they knew the song decades before Freddie Mercury and Brian May wrote it.
Just saw this now. Yes, the Champions, whom I have, um, championed, particularly in Give a Girl a Break. Thanks, Wendymoon.
Do y'all think I should do another dance blogathon?
But Bill and I haven't even done our first blogathon yet. Okay, so I never actually will do one, but Bill might. Okay probably not.
Maybe you could do the dance-a-thon annually. It was May wasn't it?
I'll always remember the night David Merrick came on stage after the opening performance of 42nd Street in August of 1980 to announce that director/choreographer Gower Champion had died earlier that day. You could just see the ripple of shock and disbelief go through the cast, Jerry Orbach among them.
He died pretty young, only 59, of a rare blood cancer. By 1980 he had won more Tony Awards than anyone director/choreographer, including Bob Fosse.
I would've like to have seen Orbach in his prime doing musicals. I've heard his recordings from The Fantasticks and Chicago but I've never actually seen a copy of one of his perfomances.
PBS has had some Orbach performances in Broadway "compilation" shows. He's wonderful!
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