Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the Great Depression and movie goers flocked to theaters just to get a few hours of escapism, which is exactly what they ...

Dancer and movie star Cyd Charisse died of cardiac arrest Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, her longtime business manager Stan Schneider disclosed. She was 86. Though only ...

Musical star Cyd Charisse has died of a heart attack, aged 87. The actress-dancer passed away in hospital in LA after falling ill on Monday, her publicist said. Charisse was best known for dancing ...

LOS ANGELES — Cyd Charisse, the long-legged beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died Tuesday.

Cyd Charisse, 86, an actress and dancer whose mile-long legs made her a memorable partner with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire in several top musicals of the 1950s, died June 17 at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...

LOS ANGELES -- Cyd Charisse, the long-legged Texas beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died Tuesday. She was 86.

Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American dancer and actress. After recovering from polio as a child and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the ...