Marge Champion(1919-2020)

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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.

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Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 3 wins total

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Ginger Rogers, Marge Champion, Eleanor Hansen, and Ethel Haworth in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

Debbie Reynolds, Gower Champion, and Marge Champion in Give a Girl a Break (1953)

Lee Curreri and Marge Champion in Fame (1982)

Harry Belafonte, Gower Champion, and Marge Champion in Sing Your Song (2011)

Marge Champion in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Gower Champion and Marge Champion in Jupiter's Darling (1955)

Known for

The Party

7.4

Rosalind Dunphy

1968

Show Boat

6.9

Ellie May Shipley

1951

Give a Girl a Break

6.3

Madelyn Corlane

1953

Three for the Show

6.1

Gwen Howard

1955

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Bright Young Things
- Mme. Ashby (uncredited)
- 2003
Fame
- Ann Carlton
- TV Series
- 1982
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
- Mrs. Bester
- 1970
The Swimmer
- Peggy Forsburgh
- 1968
The Party
- Rosalind Dunphy
- 1968
The United States Steel Hour
- TV Series
- 1959
General Electric Theater
- Kathleen Magee
- Maude Applegate
- TV Series
- 1956–1957
Screen Directors Playhouse
- Claire Gregory
- TV Series
- 1956
Shower of Stars
- TV Series
- 1956
Front Row Center
- TV Series
- 1955
Three for the Show
- Gwen Howard
- 1955
Jupiter's Darling
- Meta
- 1955
The Red Skelton Hour
- Cameo
- TV Series
- 1954
Lux Video Theatre
- Millie
- TV Series
- 1953
Give a Girl a Break
- Madelyn Corlane
- 1953

Additional Crew

I Do! I Do!
- choreographer: stage version
- director: stage version
- TV Movie
- 1983
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
- choreographer
- 1981
Masada
- dialogue coach (as Marge Champion Sagal)
- TV Mini Series
- 1981
When the Circus Came to Town
- choreographer
- dialogue coach (as Marge Champion Sagal)
- TV Movie
- 1981
The Diary of Anne Frank
- dialogue coach
- TV Movie
- 1980
Ike: The War Years
- choreographer: UK
- TV Mini Series
- 1979
The Awakening Land
- choreographer
- dialogue supervisor
- TV Mini Series
- 1978
The Day of the Locust
- dance supervisor
- 1975
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
- choreographer
- TV Movie
- 1975
Fantasia
- movement model (uncredited)
- 1940
Pinocchio
- model: "The Blue Fairy" (uncredited)
- 1940
Delinquent Parents
- dance director (as Marjorie Bell)
- 1938
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- performance model: "Snow White" (uncredited)
- 1937
The Goddess of Spring
- movement model: Persephone (uncredited)
- Short
- 1934

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That's Entertainment, Part II
- performer: "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" (1933) (uncredited)
- 1976
Three for the Show
- performer: "Someone To Watch Over Me", "Just One Of Those Things", "I've Got A Crush On You", "Which One"
- 1955
Jupiter's Darling
- performer: "If This Be Slav'ry", "The Life Of An Elephant" (uncredited)
- 1955
Give a Girl a Break
- performer: "Give A Girl A Break", "Challenge Dance" (uncredited), "It Happens Every Time"
- 1953
Lovely to Look At
- performer: "I Won't Dance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (uncredited)
- 1952
Show Boat
- performer: "I Might Fall Back on You" (1927), "Cakewalk" (1927), "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" (1927) (uncredited)
- 1951
Mr. Music
- performer: "Life Is So Peculiar" (uncredited)
- 1950
The Admiral Broadway Revue
- performer: "Reencounter"
- performer: "Song, Dance and Snappy Patter" (uncredited), "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee " (uncredited), "Ballad of Jesse James"
- performer: "Picnic" ...
- TV Series
- 1949
Delinquent Parents
- performer: "Once Around the Clock" (as Marjorie Bell)
- 1938

Quotes
In those days - it seems impossible now - nice girls didn't go to bed with people before they were married. I had been brought up by my British father. You just didn't do that. You did not sleep with them or live with them.

- Marjorie Bell

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