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Also Known As Mildred Herman
Born April 25, 1923 • Toronto • Canada
Died August 9, 2006 (aged 83) • Winston-Salem • North Carolina

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André Eglevsky in Apollo, 1944.
André Eglevsky
American dancer
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Léonide Massine
Russian dancer
Moira Shearer
Scottish ballerina and actress
Alexander Godunov
Alexander Godunov
Russian ballet dancer and actor
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Buster Keaton in Go West
Buster Keaton
American actor
Shirley MacLaine, c. 1961.
Shirley MacLaine
American actress
Amar Ramasar
American dancer
Justin Peck
Justin Peck
American choreographer and dancer
Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon
Cyd Charisse
American dancer and actress
Lincoln Kirstein
American dance patron, writer, and businessman
O'Connor, Donald
Donald O’Connor
American actor
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson
American entertainer
Wendy Whelan
Wendy Whelan
American ballet dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian-American dancer
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
Gregory Hines
Gregory Hines
American dancer, actor, and choreographer
scene from Broadway Melody of 1940
Eleanor Powell
American dancer and actress

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