* TCM Remembers 2008: Richard Widmark, Edie Adams, Guillaume Depardieu, Robert DoQui, Charlton Heston, Cyd Charisse, George Carlin, Paul Scofield, Dick Martin, Sydney Pollack, special effects visual Stan Winston, Eva Dahlbeck, Michael Kidd, June Travis, producer Charles H. Joffe, Ken Ogata, screenwriter Irving Brecher, Roy Scheider, Brad Renfro, Paul Benedict, screenwriter John Michael Hayes, John Phillip Law, Michael Pate, Roberta Collins ( later removed and replaced with Van Johnson ), Isaac Hayes, director Joseph Pevney, screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke, Fred Crane, animator Ollie Johnson, director Michael Crichton, Evelyn Keyes, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Mel Ferrer, Jerry Reed, Heath Ledger, Robert J. Anderson, Suzanne Pleshette, director Anthony Minghella, Ben Chapman, Vampira, Hazel Court, Perry Lopez, Delmar Watson, Robert Arthur, director Kon Ichikawa, Joy Page, Bernie Mac, Forrest J Ackerman, Nina Foch, director Dino Risi, Dody Goodman, director Jules Dassin, screenwriter Abby Mann, Harvey Korman, Lois Nettleton, Estelle Reiner, Julie Ege, composer Leonard Rosenman, Don LaFontaine, screenwriter Malvin Wald, director Jean Delannoy, Anita Page and Paul Newman.

Gene Kelly discovered her in Roland Petit Company " Ballet des Champs Elysées ", and cast her to appear opposite him in the musical An American in Paris ( 1951 ), a role in which a pregnant Cyd Charisse was originally cast.

Another early role saw her as Patti LaBelle's fashion designer daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, on the NBC TV series Out All Night.

Back at the cabin, Charisse is beginning to hate living in the forest and is annoyed with her family talking to the animals, though John doesn't know what is bothering her.

Then, John realizes that Charisse has developed her father's gift of talking to animals, though it has been in her for two weeks now.

The outbreak of World War II led to the break-up of the company, and when Charisse returned to Los Angeles, David Lichine offered her a dancing role in Gregory Ratoff's Something to Shout About.

Charisse was principally celebrated for her on-screen pairings with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.

In his autobiography, Astaire paid tribute to Charisse, calling her " beautiful dynamite " and writing: " That Cyd!

In her autobiography, Charisse reflected on her experience with Astaire and Kelly: " As one of the handful of girls who worked with both of those dance geniuses, I think I can give an honest comparison.

Charisse was married to singer Tony Martin from 1948 until her death.

She had two sons, Nico " Nicky " Charisse from her first marriage, and Tony Martin, Jr. ( August 28, 1950-April 10, 2011 ), from her second.

MGM was reputed to have insured her legs for a million dollars each, but Charisse later revealed that that had been an invention of the MGM publicity machine.

In her eighties, Charisse made occasional public appearances and appeared frequently in documentaries spotlighting the golden age of Hollywood.

In her collection " Tauzia 1945 " fashion designer Marcela Calvet pays tribute to her by naming an exotic handbag after Cyd Charisse.

Replacements later in the run included Cyd Charisse ( in her Broadway debut at age 70 ) and Zina Bethune as Elizaveta, Austin Pendleton and Chip Zien as Otto, and John Schneider, Rex Smith, and Brent Barrett as the Baron.

series were Gene Kelly ( in his final appearance on film before his death in 1996 ), June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Lena Horne, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, and Esther Williams, making her first appearance in a theatrical film in more than 30 years.

Cyd Charisse, who had her first speaking role in the film, also had her singing dubbed, by Marion Doenges.

Some descriptions of the show say that she's " teetering on the brink of her first days at school " but casually except for Charisse ( who on a story invites Katie to her school ), none of the neighborhood kids are seen going to school.

* Deep in My Heart ( film, 1954 ): Specialty dancer — “ One Alone ” with Cyd Charisse

Archie proclaims that it was hard but John knows how hard it is when his wife grows mad at him, Charisse growing mad at him too and spending his family vacation with a pizza delivery boy.

Something's Got to Give is an unfinished 1962 American feature film, directed by George Cukor for Twentieth Century-Fox and starring Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse.

The song is performed a couple of times in the film by Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant, and India Adams ( singing for Cyd Charisse ).

At the end, John and Charisse become closer while Archie and Ava mate and have cubs.

It also provided the basis of a 1957 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.

A Cinemascope film version of Brigadoon, directed by Vincente Minnelli, was released by MGM in 1954 with Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse in leading roles.

MGM wanted Cyd Charisse for the role played by Eva Marie Saint.

* Two Weeks in Another Town, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse

The animals, led by Charisse, Eric, and Maya, rebel against the loggers and every animal around the world go on strikes as an effort to free Archie.

Charisse in 1987, by Allan Warren

In 1990, following similar moves by MGM colleagues Debbie Reynolds and Angela Lansbury, Charisse produced the exercise video Easy Energy Shape Up, targeted for active senior citizens.

* An unused performance of " Two-Faced Woman " lip-synched by Cyd Charisse from The Band Wagon, presented side-by-side with a performance from the film Torch Song using the same vocal track but now lip-synched by Joan Crawford.

A movie musical entitled The Harvey Girls, starring Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, and Angela Lansbury, and based on a near-pulp novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams was made in 1946.

* Her professional name was inspired by that of Hollywood musical star Cyd Charisse.

Sung by Astaire with a short solo dance by Cyd Charisse, followed by Lucille Ball cracking a whip over eight chorus-girl panthers, and finally Virginia O ' Brien spoofs the previous scene by singing " Bring on those Wonderful Men "

Her husband Nick ( Dean Martin ) has remarried ; he and his new wife, Bianca ( Cyd Charisse ), are on their honeymoon when Ellen, rescued from an island where she has been stranded for five years, returns home.

( This would also happen to one of Powell's successors, Cyd Charisse ).

The video to the song, which was filmed in February 1990 and was styled to resemble a 1930s and 1950s musical, featured Cyd Charisse, The Nicholas Brothers, and Cab Calloway in one of his last on-screen appearances.

From his previous marriage, to Leandra, Holder has two daughters, Jessica and Charisse.

" Singin ' in the Rain featured Kelly's celebrated and much imitated solo dance routine to the title song, along with the " Moses Supposes " routine with Donald O ' Connor and the " Broadway Melody " finale with Cyd Charisse.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

This era saw musical stars become household names, including Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Ann Miller, Donald O ' Connor, Cyd Charisse, Mickey Rooney, Vera-Ellen, Jane Powell, Howard Keel, and Kathryn Grayson.

* 1922 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer ( d. 2008 )

** Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer ( d. 2008 )

A 1954 film version starred Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse.

He then went on to make more musicals throughout the 1950s: Let's Dance ( 1950 ) with Betty Hutton, Royal Wedding ( 1951 ) with Jane Powell, Three Little Words ( 1950 ) and The Belle of New York ( 1952 ) with Vera-Ellen, The Band Wagon ( 1953 ) and Silk Stockings ( 1957 ) with Cyd Charisse, Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ) with Leslie Caron, and Funny Face ( 1957 ) with Audrey Hepburn.

He played Doctor Alfieri in an Anglo-Italian Columbia Pictures comedy Five Golden Hours under director Mario Zampi, alongside Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse and George Sanders.

* In October 2005, his wife Charisse filed for divorce and wished him well.

There was also a 1945 feature motion picture entitled Ziegfeld Follies with Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, William Powell, Gene Kelly, Fanny Brice, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Lucille Ball, Kathryn Grayson, and others performing songs and sketches similar to those from the original Follies.

Mýa's dance influences include Gregory Hines, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Savion Glover, Jimmy Slyde, Electric Boogaloos, Rock Steady Crew, Cyd Charisse, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Sammy Davis, Jr.

Among those performers who made early film appearances in Vitaphone shorts filmed at the Flatbush studios include Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr., Sylvia Sidney, Pat O ' Brien, Ruth Etting, Mischa Elman, Betty Hutton, Burns and Allen, Giovanni Martinelli, Xavier Cugat, Bill Robinson, Lillian Roth, Joan Blondell, Ethel Merman, Abbe Lane, Eleanor Powell, Helen Morgan, The Nicholas Brothers, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jane Froman, Jack Haley, Phil Silvers, Judy Canova, Nina Mae McKinney, Marjorie Main, Rose Marie, Joe Penner, Ethel Waters, June Allyson, Shemp Howard, Lanny Ross, Lionel Stander, and Cyd Charisse among others.

By the 1950s, Sid was touring as the opening act for numerous celebrities, including Judy Garland, Liberace, Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin.

While he unsuccessfully trains Archie, John hires the local forest creatures to make an attempt to stop Charisse and Eric from making out.