Carolyn Grace Haney Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
She was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and went to New Bedford High School. Even before graduating in 1942, she had opened a dance studio where she taught dancing. Dancing was in her blood from an early age, and she performed often at high school festivities, the Mexican Hat Dance being one of her favorites. During the WWII years, she came to ...
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Outer Critics Circle Award for Other Awards
Nominations
Tony Award for Best Choreography
Movies
The Pajama Game, Invitation to the Dance, Kiss Me Kate, Summer Stock
Star Sign
Capricorn
#
Fact
1
One of Bob Fosse's favorite dancers, she was his specialty partner in the "From This Moment On" dance sequence in Kiss Me Kate (1953) and absolutely stole the show with her "Steam Heat" number in Fosse's The Pajama Game (1957).
2
Won Broadway's 1955 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical) for "The Pajama Game." She also received three Tony nominations as Best Choreographer: in 1959, for "Flower Drum Song;" in 1963, for "Bravo Giovanni;" and in 1964, posthumously, for "Funny Girl."
3
She and husband Larry Blyden had two children: Joshua Blyden (who was named after Joshua Logan) was born in 1957, and 'Ellen Blyden was born in 1960.
4
Shirley MacLaine's rise to stardom is pure Hollywood cliché and inadvertently due to Carol. Shirley was a chorus girl in the 1954 Broadway production of "The Pajama Game" and understudying Carol as well. When Carol fractured her ankle, Shirley went on for her. One night producer Hal B. Wallis saw Shirley and signed her to a movie contract. The rest, as they say, is history.
5
Awarded a Tony in 1955 for Supporting Actress in the musical, 'The Pajama Game.'
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Summer in New York
1960
TV Movie
The Pajama Game
1957
Gladys Hotchkiss
Sunday Spectacular: The Bachelor
1956
TV Movie
Marion
Invitation to the Dance
1956
Scheherazade in 'Sinbad the Sailor'
Kiss Me Kate
1953
Specialty Dancer
Tea for Two
1950
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Summer Stock
1950
Stock Company Member (uncredited)
On the Town
1949
Dancer in 'Day in New York' Ballet (uncredited)
Ziegfeld Follies
1945
Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
Wonder Man
1945
Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall
1962
TV Series choreographer - 2 episodes
The Enchanted Nutcracker
1961
TV Movie choreographer
Summer in New York
1960
TV Movie choreographer
Invitation to the Dance
1956
assistant: Mr. Kelly / assistant choreographer
Singin' in the Rain
1952
assistant dance director - uncredited
An American in Paris
1951
assistant dance director - uncredited
On the Town
1949
assistant choreographer - uncredited
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
That's Dancing!
1985
Documentary performer: "Sinbad the Sailor"
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Documentary performer: "From This Moment On" 1951 - uncredited
The Pajama Game
1957
performer: "Hernando's Hideaway", "Steam Heat"
Invitation to the Dance
1956
performer: "Sinbad the Sailor"
On the Town
1949
performer: "A Day in New York"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall
1962
TV Series
Herself - Guest
The Garry Moore Show
1959-1962
TV Series
Herself
The Ed Sullivan Show
1954-1960
TV Series
Herself / Singer / Dancer
The Arthur Murray Party
1960
TV Series
Herself
America Pauses for the Merry Month of May
1959
TV Movie
Herself
The Bob Hope Show
1959
TV Series
Herself - Guest
The Polly Bergen Show
1958
TV Series
Herself
The Patrice Munsel Show
1958
TV Series
Herself
The Big Record
1958
TV Series
Herself
Person to Person
1955
TV Series documentary
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Documentary
Clip from 'Kiss Me Kate' (uncredited)
Known for movies
The Pajama Game (1957) as Gladys Hotchkiss
Invitation to the Dance (1956) as Scheherazade in 'Sinbad the Sailor'
Kiss Me Kate (1953) as Specialty Dancer
On the Town (1949) as Dancer in 'Day in New York' Ballet
$600,000
