Marge Champion, née Marjorie Celeste Belcher (born September 2, 1919), is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. At a young age she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later she performed as an actress and dancer in film musicals, and in 1957 had a TV show based on song and dance. She has also done creative choreography for liturgy, and served as a dialogue and movement coach for the 1978 TV miniseries, The Awakening Land, set in the late 18th century in the Ohio Valley.
Early years
Champion was born Marjorie Celeste Belcher in 1919 in Los Angeles, California, to Hollywood dance director Ernest Belcher and his wife Gladys Lee Baskette (née Rosenberg). She had an older half sister, Lina Basquette, who was already acting in silent films at the age of twelve. She was the daughter of her mother's first husband, Frank Baskette, who had committed suicide.
Marjorie began dancing at an early age as her sister had done. By the age of twelve, she became a ballet instructor at her father's studio. She was hired by Walt Disney Studios as a dance model for their animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Her movements were copied to enhance the realism of the animated Snow White figure. Belcher later modelled for characters in other animated films: the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio (1940) and the Dancing Hippo in Fantasia.
Marge Champion - solo from Everything I have is Yours
She is not so great like Westmeyer, Powell or Charisse, but i really like she looks - simply my kind of women (opposed to the above) - she´s really atractive and charming.
published: 01 Nov 2017
..I WON'T DANCE - Marge & Gower Champion 1952 HD
Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearance in LOVELY TO LOOK AT (1952), one of only 7 movies that they were in together. These movies were done from 1950 to 1955. It's interesting to note that Lovely to Look At is a remake of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie ROBERTA. High class, high energy, very stylish, Marge & Gower defined dance in their era. Set your player to 720(HD) and larger screen to enjoy these videos.
published: 16 Sep 2011
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Marge & Gower Champion 1952 HD
Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearance in LOVELY TO LOOK AT (1952), one of only 7 movies that they were in together. These movies were done from 1950 to 1955. It's interesting to note that Lovely to Look At is a remake of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie ROBERTA. High class, high energy, very stylish, Marge & Gower defined dance in their era. Set your player to 720(HD) and larger screen to enjoy these videos. This elegant scene is just fabulous.
published: 16 Sep 2011
Debbie Reynolds, Helen Wood, Marge Champion - competition number
I don´t find it on YT.
From Give a girl a break (1953) musical.
published: 01 Jan 2017
Marge Champion - Snow White’s Ballerina
Today we explore the life of Marge Champion, the live model for Snow White.
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Rian Keating Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCwE1cHB5c
Guideposts Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Df0d_IFLv4&t=17s
Wiki Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Champion
IMDB Page
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0150718/bio
D23 Legends Page:
https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/marge-champion/
TCM Biography Page:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/31852%7C105455/Marge-Champion/biography.html
Animated Eye:
http://animatedeye.johncanemaker.com/blog/happy-birthday-marge-champion-at-100-years-youre-st...
published: 09 Nov 2020
Showboat dancing scene with Marge and Gower Champion
Marge and Gower Champion's exqusite turpsicore in the 1940's MGM movie Showboat . If you haven't seen it get this movie.Their talent is indescribable ! Howard Keel, Katherine Grason, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown, Marge and Gower Champion and Agness Moorehead
published: 04 Mar 2010
Movie Legends - Marge Champion
Marjorie Celeste Champion was an American dancer and actress. At 14, she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later, she performed as an actress and dancer in film musicals, and in 1957 had a television show based on song and dance.
published: 21 Apr 2021
Gower and Marge Champion - dance 1 from Everything I have is Yours
Duet from movie - Everything I have is Yours (1952)
published: 01 Nov 2017
Gower and Marge Champion - dance 2 from Everything I have is Yours
Another duet from movie - Everything I have is Yours (1952)
She is not so great like Westmeyer, Powell or Charisse, but i really like she looks - simply my kind of women (opposed to the above) - she´s really atractive an...
She is not so great like Westmeyer, Powell or Charisse, but i really like she looks - simply my kind of women (opposed to the above) - she´s really atractive and charming.
She is not so great like Westmeyer, Powell or Charisse, but i really like she looks - simply my kind of women (opposed to the above) - she´s really atractive and charming.
Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearance...
Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearance in LOVELY TO LOOK AT (1952), one of only 7 movies that they were in together. These movies were done from 1950 to 1955. It's interesting to note that Lovely to Look At is a remake of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie ROBERTA. High class, high energy, very stylish, Marge & Gower defined dance in their era. Set your player to 720(HD) and larger screen to enjoy these videos.
Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearance in LOVELY TO LOOK AT (1952), one of only 7 movies that they were in together. These movies were done from 1950 to 1955. It's interesting to note that Lovely to Look At is a remake of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie ROBERTA. High class, high energy, very stylish, Marge & Gower defined dance in their era. Set your player to 720(HD) and larger screen to enjoy these videos.
Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearance...
Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearance in LOVELY TO LOOK AT (1952), one of only 7 movies that they were in together. These movies were done from 1950 to 1955. It's interesting to note that Lovely to Look At is a remake of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie ROBERTA. High class, high energy, very stylish, Marge & Gower defined dance in their era. Set your player to 720(HD) and larger screen to enjoy these videos. This elegant scene is just fabulous.
Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearance in LOVELY TO LOOK AT (1952), one of only 7 movies that they were in together. These movies were done from 1950 to 1955. It's interesting to note that Lovely to Look At is a remake of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie ROBERTA. High class, high energy, very stylish, Marge & Gower defined dance in their era. Set your player to 720(HD) and larger screen to enjoy these videos. This elegant scene is just fabulous.
Today we explore the life of Marge Champion, the live model for Snow White.
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Today we explore the life of Marge Champion, the live model for Snow White.
Support us!!
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Dizographies
Writing/Editing By - Amber Hannen
Narration By - Lee Alirez
Twitter: @Bombastictaro
Newgrounds: BigTaro
Resources/Further Reading:
Rian Keating Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCwE1cHB5c
Guideposts Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Df0d_IFLv4&t=17s
Wiki Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Champion
IMDB Page
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0150718/bio
D23 Legends Page:
https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/marge-champion/
TCM Biography Page:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/31852%7C105455/Marge-Champion/biography.html
Animated Eye:
http://animatedeye.johncanemaker.com/blog/happy-birthday-marge-champion-at-100-years-youre-still-the-fairest-one-of-all/
Times Telegram:
https://www.timestelegram.com/news/20190904/tinseltown-talks-dancer-marge-champion-turns-100
Disney Wiki:
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Marge_Champion
https://www.vexels.com/vectors/preview/125850/blue-starburst-background
Today we explore the life of Marge Champion, the live model for Snow White.
Support us!!
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Dizographies
Writing/Editing By - Amber Hannen
Narration By - Lee Alirez
Twitter: @Bombastictaro
Newgrounds: BigTaro
Resources/Further Reading:
Rian Keating Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCwE1cHB5c
Guideposts Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Df0d_IFLv4&t=17s
Wiki Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Champion
IMDB Page
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0150718/bio
D23 Legends Page:
https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/marge-champion/
TCM Biography Page:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/31852%7C105455/Marge-Champion/biography.html
Animated Eye:
http://animatedeye.johncanemaker.com/blog/happy-birthday-marge-champion-at-100-years-youre-still-the-fairest-one-of-all/
Times Telegram:
https://www.timestelegram.com/news/20190904/tinseltown-talks-dancer-marge-champion-turns-100
Disney Wiki:
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Marge_Champion
https://www.vexels.com/vectors/preview/125850/blue-starburst-background
Marge and Gower Champion's exqusite turpsicore in the 1940's MGM movie Showboat . If you haven't seen it get this movie.Their talent is indescribable ! Howa...
Marge and Gower Champion's exqusite turpsicore in the 1940's MGM movie Showboat . If you haven't seen it get this movie.Their talent is indescribable ! Howard Keel, Katherine Grason, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown, Marge and Gower Champion and Agness Moorehead
Marge and Gower Champion's exqusite turpsicore in the 1940's MGM movie Showboat . If you haven't seen it get this movie.Their talent is indescribable ! Howard Keel, Katherine Grason, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown, Marge and Gower Champion and Agness Moorehead
Marjorie Celeste Champion was an American dancer and actress. At 14, she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later, she performed...
Marjorie Celeste Champion was an American dancer and actress. At 14, she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later, she performed as an actress and dancer in film musicals, and in 1957 had a television show based on song and dance.
Marjorie Celeste Champion was an American dancer and actress. At 14, she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later, she performed as an actress and dancer in film musicals, and in 1957 had a television show based on song and dance.
She is not so great like Westmeyer, Powell or Charisse, but i really like she looks - simply my kind of women (opposed to the above) - she´s really atractive and charming.
Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearance in LOVELY TO LOOK AT (1952), one of only 7 movies that they were in together. These movies were done from 1950 to 1955. It's interesting to note that Lovely to Look At is a remake of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie ROBERTA. High class, high energy, very stylish, Marge & Gower defined dance in their era. Set your player to 720(HD) and larger screen to enjoy these videos.
Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearance in LOVELY TO LOOK AT (1952), one of only 7 movies that they were in together. These movies were done from 1950 to 1955. It's interesting to note that Lovely to Look At is a remake of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie ROBERTA. High class, high energy, very stylish, Marge & Gower defined dance in their era. Set your player to 720(HD) and larger screen to enjoy these videos. This elegant scene is just fabulous.
Today we explore the life of Marge Champion, the live model for Snow White.
Support us!!
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Dizographies
Writing/Editing By - Amber Hannen
Narration By - Lee Alirez
Twitter: @Bombastictaro
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Resources/Further Reading:
Rian Keating Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCwE1cHB5c
Guideposts Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Df0d_IFLv4&t=17s
Wiki Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Champion
IMDB Page
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0150718/bio
D23 Legends Page:
https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/marge-champion/
TCM Biography Page:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/31852%7C105455/Marge-Champion/biography.html
Animated Eye:
http://animatedeye.johncanemaker.com/blog/happy-birthday-marge-champion-at-100-years-youre-still-the-fairest-one-of-all/
Times Telegram:
https://www.timestelegram.com/news/20190904/tinseltown-talks-dancer-marge-champion-turns-100
Disney Wiki:
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Marge_Champion
https://www.vexels.com/vectors/preview/125850/blue-starburst-background
Marge and Gower Champion's exqusite turpsicore in the 1940's MGM movie Showboat . If you haven't seen it get this movie.Their talent is indescribable ! Howard Keel, Katherine Grason, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown, Marge and Gower Champion and Agness Moorehead
Marjorie Celeste Champion was an American dancer and actress. At 14, she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later, she performed as an actress and dancer in film musicals, and in 1957 had a television show based on song and dance.
Marge Champion, née Marjorie Celeste Belcher (born September 2, 1919), is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. At a young age she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later she performed as an actress and dancer in film musicals, and in 1957 had a TV show based on song and dance. She has also done creative choreography for liturgy, and served as a dialogue and movement coach for the 1978 TV miniseries, The Awakening Land, set in the late 18th century in the Ohio Valley.
Early years
Champion was born Marjorie Celeste Belcher in 1919 in Los Angeles, California, to Hollywood dance director Ernest Belcher and his wife Gladys Lee Baskette (née Rosenberg). She had an older half sister, Lina Basquette, who was already acting in silent films at the age of twelve. She was the daughter of her mother's first husband, Frank Baskette, who had committed suicide.
Marjorie began dancing at an early age as her sister had done. By the age of twelve, she became a ballet instructor at her father's studio. She was hired by Walt Disney Studios as a dance model for their animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Her movements were copied to enhance the realism of the animated Snow White figure. Belcher later modelled for characters in other animated films: the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio (1940) and the Dancing Hippo in Fantasia.
'The love of my fierce mama bear mum who championed me from the very first day I stepped into the industry,' the singer said. 'It's well known to his day you don't f**k with Marg Higgins,' she added as the crowd burst into laughter.
Guwahati... Key discussions focused on ecological studies, large mammals, conservation, and species reintroduction ... The college won overall champion and Army Public School, Sapru Marg was the runner-up.113861936 .
After the meeting, Kharge wrote on social media platform X, "Chak deIndia, Chak de Haryana! Meeting our talented champions Vinesh Phogat and BajrangPunia who have made India proud in the world at 10 Rajaji Marg. We are proud of both of you." ... ....
The letters of the word ‘Champions’ written in bold on the special jerseys of the Indian cricketers were visible from far away ... PM Modi hosted the T20 World Cup Champions 2024, Team India, at a private ceremony at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg ... .
The letters of the word 'champions' written in bold on the special jerseys of the Indian cricketers could be seen from miles away ... PM Modi hosted Team India, the T20WorldChampions 2024, at a private ceremony at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg ... ....
Marge is an unpopular teenager who lives a rough life ... and Jess Gabor as Marge, among others ... But Marge’s life is completely upended when her beloved mother and only champion dies in a tragic accident.
Rochelle Hudson became a Hollywood actress at 13, due to her ambitious stage mother ... The career of newly-renamed Rochelle began. When the family arrived in Van Nuys in 1928, Rochelle began studying with Ernest Belcher, father of dancer MargeChampion ... .