Marge Champion

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Birth Name: Marjorie Celeste Belcher

Born: 2 September 1919 Died: 21 October 2020

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 2"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Gower Champion

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Real Actors That Inspired Disney Characters (12 items)
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Published 12 years, 8 months ago

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Oiga usted, ¡qué bien se ve! (3001 items)
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Actresses And Models_17_1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s (7 items)
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Published 12 years ago

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Gorgeous Women in Film and TV (567 items)
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Published 11 years, 1 month ago

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Directed by Blake Edwards (541 items)
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Published 13 years, 10 months ago

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Description: One of the great dancer and choreographers in both movies and stage, Marge Champion was best known as the former wife of Gower Champion, when they worked together as a highly successfully dancing team in the MGM musical years. After retiring from movies, Champion worked as a dance teacher and as a choreographer in New York. Was filmed for the reference of Disney animators (her then-husband Art Babbitt was an animator, and supervised much of the reference filming) as a model for the heroine in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio (1940), and Hyacinth Hippo in the "Dance of the Hours" se ... (more)