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Date of Birth

2 September 1919, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name

Marjorie Celeste Belcher

Mini Biography

One of the great dancer and choreographers in both movies and stage, Marge Champion is best known today 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 now works as a dance teacher and as a choreographer in New York.

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Spouse

Boris Sagal	(1 January 1977 - 22 May 1981) (his death)
Gower Champion	(5 October 1947 - 1973) (divorced) 1 child
Art Babbitt	(1937 - 1940) (divorced)

Trivia

Posed for film footage which Disney animators used as reference, and in some cases actually rotoscoped, to make certain that Snow White's movements were natural and realistic.

She was the cartoonist's model for the heroine in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio (1940), and Hyacinth Hippo in the "Dance of the Hours" segment of Fantasia (1940), which she also helped choreograph, in an elaborate parody of a Balanchine ballet danced by Vera Zorina in The Goldwyn Follies (1938) . Marge even recalls doing some modeling for Mr. Stork in Dumbo (1941) .

Step-sister of late silent screen actress, Lina Basquette.

Daughter of dance teacher/choreographer Ernest Belcher.

Stepmother of actresses Katey Sagal, Joe Sagal, Jean Sagal and Liz Sagal.

Mother of film and television director Gregg Champion.

Salary

Fantasia (1940)	$25/day
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)	$10/day

Where Are They Now

(January 2001) She will appear on Broadway this spring in a limited-run revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" as-surprise-the wife of a husband-and-wife song-and-dance team, performing the song "Rain On the Roof".

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