Cyd Charisse Net Worth

Cyd Charisse Net Worth is
$1.4 Million

Cyd Charisse Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Cyd Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea on March 8, 1921 in Amarillo, Texas. Born to be a dancer, she spent her early childhood taking ballet lessons and joined the Ballet Russe at age 13. In 1939, she married Nico Charisse, her former dance teacher. In 1943, she appeared in her first film, Something to Shout About (1943), billed as Lily Norwood...

Date Of BirthMarch 8, 1922, Amarillo, Texas, United States
DiedJune 17, 2008, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of BirthAmarillo, Texas, USA
Height5' 7½" (1.71 m)
ProfessionActress, Soundtrack
SpouseTony Martin (m. 1948–2008), Nico Charise (m. 1939–1947)
ChildrenTony Martin Jr., Nicholas Charisse
Star SignPisces
#Quote
1[When Gene Kelly asked what she would like engraved on her gravestone] People sometimes had a problem placing her face, but they never forgot her pins.
2If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.
3Fred [Astaire] moved like glass. Physically, it was easy to dance with him. It was not as demanding on me. I didn't need the same vitality and strength.
4The censors were always there when I was on the set. When I was held up, in a lift [in Deep in My Heart (1954)], they were up on ladders to see if I was properly covered.
5[on explaining why she never tapped on-screen] I was pulled up as a ballet dancer and I wasn't used to pounding the floor with bent knees.
6[on Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly] Fred could never do the lifts Gene did and never wanted to. I'd say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on the screen. Each has a distinctive style. Each is a joy to work with. But it's like comparing apples and oranges. They're both delicious.
7[on Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly] I can watch Astaire anytime. I don't think he ever made a wrong move. He was a perfectionist. He would work on a few bars for hours until it was just the way he wanted it. Gene was the same way. They both wanted perfection, even though they were completely different personalities.
#Fact
1Following her death, she was interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
2She was an honorary member of the National Federation of Republican Women along with Laraine Day, Rhonda Fleming and Coleen Gray.
3Is one of several, if not only, world renowned prima ballerinas to be featured in a popular hip-hop music video. She had a cameo in "Alright" (1990) by Janet Jackson.
4Although she is interred in a niche at Hillside Memorial Park, a well-known Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles, Charrise was in fact a practicing Methodist. Her funeral was even presided by Dr. Gary Allen Dicky, pastor of the United Methodist Church of Westlake Village.
5Prior to her feature film debut in Something to Shout About (1943) (filmed in 1942), Cyd appeared in at least six Soundies, short musical films played in the popular television-like jukeboxes of that era. Her actual film debut may have most likely been in Escort Girl (1941), (copyrighted 4 November 1941), in which an uncredited dancer looking amazingly like Cyd, does a number, very much in Cyd's unique style, in a café sequence. Just for the record, since this is an exploitation film, the dancer in question is properly attired at all times, and the sequence contains no nudity nor suggests any improper behavior.
6One of the few actresses to have danced with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in the movies, other actresses that have also done this includes Judy Garland, Rita Hayworth, Vera-Ellen, Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Caron.
7She was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in Austin, Texas in March 2002.
8She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1601 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
9Her dark looks initially had her cast as ethnic beauties. She was cast as Ricardo Montalban's fiancée in the film Fiesta (1947), and as a Polynesian in the Esther Williams' musical On an Island with You (1948).
10She and husband Tony Martin became a popular song-and-dance couple on television and in nightclubs/cabaret shows after their heyday in film.
11Fred Astaire, in his 1959 memoir "Steps in Time", referred to Cyd as "beautiful dynamite".
12First gained notice with the famed Ballet Russe, becoming a member of the corps de ballet at age 14 and touring the United States and Europe. The company requested that their members use Russian-sounding names so she was billed at different times Natacha Tulaelis, Celia Siderova and Maria Istromena.
13Got her start in Hollywood when Ballet Russe star David Lichine was hired by Columbia for a ballet sequence in the musical film Something to Shout About (1943). Cyd, who was then billed as Lily Norwood, appeared in the scene and attracted attention. Movie offers, including a dancing role opposite Astaire in Ziegfeld Follies (1945), led to a seven-year contract offer by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
14First started taking lessons at the encouragement of her father, Ernest. She was frail and sickly at the time and had a bout with polio. Dance lessons were encouraged to build up her strength and she took to it quickly.
15Met first husband Nico Charisse, as a very young dancer. She had studied with him for a time in Los Angeles. They married in Paris in 1939 when she was still a teenager. When the Ballet Russe disbanded after World War II broke out, the still newlyweds moved to Hollywood.
16Was 70 years old when she made her Broadway debut in "Grand Hotel".
17Said her husband could tell who she had been dancing with that day on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer set. If she came home covered with bruises on her, it was the very physically-demanding Gene Kelly, if not it was the smooth and agile Fred Astaire.
18Her father, Ernest Enos Finklea, Jr., was a jeweler. Her mother was Lela Norwood Finklea.
19Grew up in the Texas dust-bowl town of Amarillo. Her Baptist jeweler father, a closet balletomane, encouraged her to begin her ballet lessons for health reasons.
20During a family vacation in Los Angeles when she was 12, her parents enrolled her in ballet classes at a school in Hollywood. One of her teachers was Nico Charisse.
21The director of the Ballet Russe dance company, Colonel W. de Basil visited the school and saw her dance. He invited her to join his company, and she toured with it. In 1939, while she was in France on tour with the ballet company, she and Nico Charisse eloped. They had one son, Nico, before their marriage ended in divorce in 1947.
22Unlike many top female dancers in the era of movie musicals, she was trained as a ballerina in the Russian tradition.
23Has two sons: Nicholas Charisse (born May 7, 1942) and Tony Martin Jr. (born August 28, 1950).
24Had appeared with Ricardo Montalban in six films: Fiesta (1947), On an Island with You (1948), The Kissing Bandit (1948), The Mark of the Renegade (1951), Sombrero (1953) and Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976).
25She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 2006 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, D.C. for her services to dance.
26Her daughter-in-law, Sheila Charisse, was killed in the May 25, 1979 crash of American Airlines flight 191 shortly after takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
27Has one son with her second husband, Tony Martin: Tony Martin Jr.
28Was offered the lead role of Jo Stockton in Funny Face (1957) but declined. The role was eventually played by Audrey Hepburn.
29Lost out on two of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's biggest movie musical roles. She fell and injured her knee during a dance leap on a film which forced her out of the role of Nadina Hale in Easter Parade (1948). Ann Miller replaced her. She also had to relinquish the lead femme role in An American in Paris (1951) due to pregnancy. Leslie Caron took over the role and became a star.
30When casting the film Damn Yankees! (1958), the studio was initially interested in pursuing Cyd as Lola and Cary Grant as Applegate. In the end, Gwen Verdon won the right to recreate her stage role with Ray Walston the devilish Applegate. Cyd was supposedly unavailable but later played the role on the legit stage.
31In Call Her Mom (1972), she was originally to have done the role played by Gloria DeHaven, but was replaced by Ann Miller before DeHaven finally took over the role.
32In 1952, she had a $5-million insurance policy accepted on her legs.
33Was "the other woman" in Marilyn Monroe's last and unfinished film Something's Got to Give (1962).
34Aunt, by marriage, of actress Nana Visitor, Ian Tucker and Zan Charisse. Mother-in-law of Liv Lindeland.
35Although one of the greatest female dancers in the history of the movie musical, her singing in films was almost always dubbed, most notably by Carol Richards in Brigadoon (1954) and a young Vikki Carr in The Silencers (1966).
36Took her name Cyd from a nickname originated from her brother. Initially, he could not say sister and called her Sid. She took the nickname and convinced her agent to keep the name with the present spelling. He feared that Sid was too masculine.
37She danced with the Ballet Russe using the names Maria Istomina and Felia Sidorova.

Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Empire State Building Murders2008TV MovieVicky Adams
Frasier1995TV SeriesPolly
Burke's Law1995TV SeriesAmanda Richardson
Swimsuit1989TV MovieMrs. Allison
Crazy Like a Fox1986TV SeriesBarbara Carlisle
Murder, She Wrote1985TV SeriesMyrna Montclair LeRoy
Glitter1984TV Series
The Fall Guy1984TV SeriesDiana
Fantasy Island1978-1983TV SeriesJulie Mars / Queen Delphia
Portrait of an Escort1980TV MovieSheilah Croft
The Love Boat1979TV SeriesEve Mills
Hawaii Five-O1978TV SeriesAlicia Warren
Warlords of the Deep1978Atsil
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood1976President's Girl 4
Medical Center1975TV SeriesValerie
Fol-de-Rol1972TV MovieVarious Characters
Maroc 71967Louise Henderson
The Silencers1966Sarita
Assassination in Rome1965Shelley North
Something's Got to Give1962ShortBianca Arden
Two Weeks in Another Town1962Carlotta
Black Tights1961The Widow
Checkmate1961TV SeriesJanine Caree
Five Golden Hours1961Baroness Sandra
Party Girl1958Vicki Gaye
Twilight for the Gods1958Charlotte King
Silk Stockings1957Ninotchka Yoschenko
Meet Me in Las Vegas1956Maria Corvier
It's Always Fair Weather1955Jackie Leighton
Deep in My Heart1954Cyd Charisse
Brigadoon1954Fiona Campbell
Easy to Love1953Girl in blue swimsuit - Cameo appearance (uncredited)
The Band Wagon1953Gabrielle Gerard
Sombrero1953Lola de Torrano
Singin' in the Rain1952Dancer
The Wild North1952Indian Girl
The Mark of the Renegade1951Manuella de Vasquez
East Side, West Side1949Rosa Senta
Tension1949Mary Chanler
Words and Music1948Margo Grant
The Kissing Bandit1948Dancer
On an Island with You1948Yvonne Torro
The Unfinished Dance1947Mlle. Ariane Bouchet
Fiesta1947Conchita
Till the Clouds Roll By1946Dance Specialty (segment 'Roberta')
Three Wise Fools1946Rena Fairchild
The Harvey Girls1946Deborah Andrews
Ziegfeld Follies1945Ballerina ('Beauty')
This Love of Mine1944ShortDancer (uncredited)
In Our Time1944Ballerina (uncredited)
Thousands Cheer1943Dancer in Don Loper Number (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow1943Galina Ulanova - Ballerina (uncredited)
Something to Shout About1943Lily (as Lily Norwood)
The Gay Parisian1941ShortDancer (uncredited)
Escort Girl1941Flamenco Dancer (uncredited)

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
That's Entertainment! III1994Documentary performer: "Baby, You Knock Me Out" 1955, "The Heather on the Hill" 1947, "Two-Faced Woman" 1953, "Dance of Fury" 1948, "The Girl Hunt" 1952 - uncredited
That's Dancing!1985Documentary performer: "Red Blues"
That's Entertainment, Part II1976Documentary performer: "All of You" 1955, "Broadway Rhythm" 1935 - uncredited
That's Entertainment!1974performer: "Dancing in the Dark" 1931 - uncredited
The Silencers1966performer: "The Silencers", "Santiago"
The Hollywood Palace1965TV Series performer - 1 episode
Silk Stockings1957performer: "Paris Loves Lovers", "It's a Chemical Reaction that's all", "All of You", "Without Love", "Fated to Be Mated", "Red Blues" - uncredited
Meet Me in Las Vegas1956performer: "Rehearsal Ballet", "Sleeping Beauty Ballet" excerpt, "Frankie and Johnny", "The Gal with the Yaller Shoes", "My Lucky Charm"
MGM Parade1955TV Series performer - 1 episode
It's Always Fair Weather1955performer: "Baby, You Knock Me Out" 1955 - uncredited
Deep in My Heart1954performer: "One Alone"
Brigadoon1954performer: "Waiting for My Dearie", "The Heather on the Hill", "The Heather on the Hill" reprise - uncredited
The Band Wagon1953"That's Entertainment" 1953, uncredited / performer: "The Beggars Waltz" 1931, "Dancing in the Dark" 1931, "You and the Night and the Music" 1934, "New Sun in the Sky" 1931, "The Girl Hunt" 1953 - uncredited
Words and Music1948performer: "This Can't Be Love", "On Your Toes", "Blue Room"
The Kissing Bandit1948performer: "Dance of Fury"
On an Island with You1948performer: "The Pagan Mask" - uncredited
Till the Clouds Roll By1946performer: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" - uncredited
The Harvey Girls1946performer: "It's a Great Big World", "Swing Your Partner Round and Round" - uncredited
Ziegfeld Follies1945performer: "Here's to the Girls", "There's Beauty Ev'rywhere"

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'2002Video documentary short thanks

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Get Aboard! The Band Wagon2005Video documentary shortHerself
That's Entertainment!: The Masters Behind the Musicals2004Video documentary shortHerself
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies2004TV Movie documentaryHerself
Larry King Live2003TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Satin and Silk2003Video shortHerself / On Camera Host
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'2002Video documentary shortHerself
American Masters1990-2002TV Series documentaryHerself
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration2001TV Special documentaryHerself
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days2001TV Movie documentaryHerself
Biography2000TV Series documentaryHerself
Janet Jackson: Design of a Decade 1986/19961996Video documentaryHerself (segment "Alright")
Great Performances1996TV SeriesHerself
Intimate Portrait1996TV Series documentaryHerself
Inside the Dream Factory1995TV Movie documentaryHerself
The Annual American Friends Hebrew University Scopus Awards Honoring Ted Turner1995TV SpecialHerself
That's Entertainment III: Behind the Screen1994Video documentaryHerself
That's Entertainment! III1994DocumentaryHerself - Co-Host / Narrator
Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration1994TV MovieHerself
The 5th Annual Legacy Awards1993TV SpecialHerself
This Is Your Life1993TV Series documentaryHerself
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts1992TV SpecialHerself
Cinema 31992TV SeriesHerself
MGM: When the Lion Roars1992TV Mini-Series documentaryHerself
Janet Jackson: The Rhythm Nation Compilation1990VideoHerself (segment "Alright")
The 35th Annual Thalians Gala1990TV MovieHerself
Zapper n'est pas jouer1990TV SeriesHerself
America's Dance Honors1990TV SpecialHerself
Cinéma cinémas1990TV Series documentaryHerself
Un dia és un dia1990TV SeriesHerself
Cyd Charisse: Easy Energy Shape-Up1990VideoHerself
Visioni private1989Herself
The 61st Annual Academy Awards1989TV SpecialHerself - Performer
America's All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor1989TV Special documentaryHerself
Lerner and Loewe: Broadway's Last Romantics1988TV MovieHerself
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood1987TV Special documentaryHerself
The Annual Friars Club Tribute Present a Salute to Liza Minnelli1987TV MovieHerself
Looks Familiar1986TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The 58th Annual Academy Awards1986TV SpecialHerself - Performer
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan1985TV SpecialHerself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Gene Kelly1985TV Special documentaryHerself
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts1982TV SpecialHerself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Fred Astaire1981TV Movie documentaryHerself
The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Milton Berle1980TV MovieHerself
The 50th Annual Academy Awards1978TV SpecialHerself - Performer: Best Costume Design Award
Gene Kelly: An American in Pasadena1978TV SpecialHerself
Over Easy1977TV SeriesHerself
Wednesday at 81977TV SeriesHerself
The Hollywood Squares1977TV SeriesGuest Appearance
Donny and Marie1977TV SeriesHerself
The Mike Douglas Show1975-1976TV SeriesHerself - Dancer / Actress
Dinah!1975TV SeriesHerself
ABC Late Night1974TV SeriesHerself
Film Portrait1972DocumentaryHerself
The Bob Hope Show1968-1969TV SeriesHerself
The Dean Martin Show1967-1968TV SeriesHerself
The Danny Thomas Hour1967TV SeriesHerself
The Hollywood Palace1964-1967TV SeriesHerself - Hostess / Herself - Dancer / Herself - Sketch Actor / ...
The Dean Martin Summer Show1966TV SeriesHerself
The 38th Annual Academy Awards1966TV SpecialSpecialty dancer
The Linkletter Show1964TV SeriesHerself
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall1963TV SeriesHerself
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show1962TV SeriesHerself
The 34th Annual Academy Awards1962TV SpecialHerself - Co-Presenter: Music Awards
The Ed Sullivan Show1954-1962TV SeriesHerself - Dancer / Herself
Here's Hollywood1961TV SeriesHerself
The 33rd Annual Academy Awards1961TV SpecialHerself - Co-Presenter: Cinematography Awards
Startime1959TV SeriesHerself
The 31st Annual Academy Awards1959TV SpecialHerself - Co-Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film
The All-Star Christmas Show1958TV MovieHerself
The 30th Annual Academy Awards1958TV SpecialHerself - Co-Presenter: Documentary Awards
Person to Person1956TV Series documentaryHerself
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends1956TV SeriesHerself
What's My Line?1956TV SeriesHerself - Mystery Guest
Texaco Star Theatre1956TV SeriesHerself - Dancer
1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration1955Short documentaryHerself (uncredited)
MGM Parade1955TV SeriesHerself
The 27th Annual Academy Awards1955TV SpecialHerself - Audience Member

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Imprescindibles2011TV SeriesHerself
Michael Feinstein's American Songbook2010TV Mini-Series documentaryHerself
Let's Dance2009/IIDocumentaryHerself
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me2009TV Movie documentaryHerself
The 81st Annual Academy Awards2009TV SpecialHerself - Memorial Tribute
The Orange British Academy Film Awards2009TV SpecialHerself - Memorial Tribute
15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards2009TV SpecialHerself - Memorial Tribute
The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards2008TV SpecialHerself - In Memoriam
Tough Baby: Torch Song2008Video documentary shortHerself
A Life in Words and Music2007Video shortMargo Grant
Hollywood Remembers2000TV Series documentary
Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'1997TV Short documentaryFiona Campbell in 'Brigadoon'
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies1995TV Movie documentaryGabrielle Gerard, 'The Band Wagon' (uncredited)
The 65th Annual Academy Awards1993TV SpecialHerself
Rock Hudson's Home Movies1992DocumentaryCharlotte King
Nylon blues1991Documentary
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give1990TV Movie documentaryHerself
Biography1987TV Series documentaryHerself
That's Entertainment, Part II1976DocumentaryClip from 'Silk Stockings'
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television1975TV SpecialHerself
That's Entertainment!1974Clip from 'Singin' in the Rain'
Marilyn1963DocumentaryHerself (scene from "Something's Got to Give") (uncredited)
MGM Parade1955-1956TV SeriesDancer / Herself

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1991Desert Palm Achievement AwardPalm Springs International Film Festival
1960Star on the Walk of FameWalk of FameMotion PictureOn 8 February 1960. At 1601 Vine Street.

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1958Golden GlobeGolden Globes, USABest Actress - Comedy or MusicalSilk Stockings (1957)

2nd Place Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1958Golden LaurelLaurel AwardsTop Female Musical PerformanceSilk Stockings (1957)

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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