Actress dancer juliet prowse biography
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Juliet Prowse; Actress, Dancer on Stage, TV and Film
Juliet Prowse, the dancer and actress who high-kicked her way to fame by performing a saucy cancan before startled Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, died Saturday. She was 59.
She died at her Holmby Hills home after losing a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer, according to her spokeswoman, Marcia Groff.
Prowse was an auburn-haired beauty who was once linked romantically to singers Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra--at the same time. Her 37-year Hollywood career included film, stage and television.
But dancing was the true love of the Bombay-born performer, who ended up in movies only because some felt she was was too tall (5 feet, 7 3/4) to be the ballerina that she had studied all her life to be.
Prowse was 22 when she was recruited by 20th Century Fox at the urging of choreographer Hermes Pan, who considered her one of the world’s best dancers.
There was no acting for her in her first film, “Can-Can.” But the surprise rea
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Juliet Prowse
South African-American dancer/actress (1936–1996)
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| Born | Juliet Anne Prowse (1936-09-25)25 September 1936 Bombay, British India (today's Mumbai, India) |
| Died | 14 September 1996(1996-09-14) (aged 59) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | British |
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| Years active | 1955–1995 |
| Spouses | Eddie Frazier (m. 1969; div. 1970)John McCook (m. 1972; div. 1979) |
| Children | 1 |
Juliet Anne Prowse (25 September 1936 – 14 September 1996) was a British-American dancer and actress whose four-decade career included stage, television and film. She was born in Bombay (today's Mumbai) then of British India, raised in South Africa, where her family emigrated after World War II.[1] Known for her attractive legs, she was described after her death as having "arguably the
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Obituary: Juliet Prowse
A tall actress-dancer with red hair, putande lips (she was once called "a trim Brigitte Bardot") and a great high kick, Juliet Prowse appeared on screen with Frank Sinatra (who proposed marriage) and Elvis Presley during an all too brief bio career, shocked Nikita Khrushchev with her dancing in Can-Can, became a London stage favourite (notably in Sweet Charity), and a sensational night-club performer.
She was born in 1936, in Bombay, where her father worked as a travelling salesman. Her father, an Englishman born in South Africa, died when she was three and her mother then took her to relatives in Durban, but finally settled in Johannesburg. "Juliet showed an aptitide for dancing from the time she could walk," stated her mother, who enrolled her daughter in ballet school at the age of fyra. At 14 she was in the corps of Johannesburg's Festival Ballet, dancing in Swan Lake, Coppelia and fransk artikel Sylphides. Two years later she played the Queen of the Wilis in Gis