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Gwen Verdon

A Life on Stage and Screen

By Peter Shelley

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Publish Date

Oct 15, 2015

Publisher

McFarland & Company

Language

eng

Pages

272

Description:

"Stricken with rickets as a child, Verdon overcame severe leg deformity through ballet training, making her film debut at 11 as a solo ballerina in the musical The King Steps Out (1936). This full-length biography of Verdon covers her life and career, her individual performances and her collaborations with choreographers Jack Cole and Bob Fosse, her husband"--